“People are in a state of survival inside #Moria2,” says doctor* on #Lesvos, “once they are actually arriving in a safe space, we see them collapse. This on-going humiliation in semi-closed, overheated, undignified living spaces with no escape are breaking people’s mind.” /1 
“Some might thing, once with a positive asylum decision, camp residents just want to leave #Moria2 to find a future, a better job or place, but the truth is, that most just want to run away and leave this black hole behind. Run from the experience of being a #refugee.” /2
“We have to facilitate people to flourish. To use their potential. But instead we create prison-like structures, with no trees, no shade, no schools, no carpets or movie nights, nothing individual should remain, no traces should be left. The unspoken aim: Vanish.” /3
“The #EU is basing its politics based on a punishing principle. The logic of a wall, a drone, the fences, a pushback, the whole surveillance body in itself is: if you come here, you did something wrong. You depend on our mercy.” /4
“Coming back to the Control mechanisms: There are currently 3-4 checkpoints before arriving at camp entrance. You need an appointment or paper to state your reason to leave the camp. Or to reach the medical tent up front. Doctors have a strict medical protocol to follow,” /5
“There has never been a bigger mental health crisis, as I can witness it now. People are shrinking. Their bodies. Their mind. Some stay paralyzed in tents. Especially the children, which cannot go to school or have distraction from parents stress and emotions,” /6
“I am not trying to dramatize things, when saying that I have seen patients who can be in a wheelchair from one week to the next, just because the trauma eventually shuts the body down. It cannot take it anymore. Here I see symptoms I have not seen in any other place.” /7
*name/special profession for security reasons anonymous
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