Schizophrenic people fleeing Ukraine
War not only makes you sick, war is a particular horror for sick people. The Wahrendorff Clinic in Sehnde also cares for people from Ukraine suffering from schizophrenia and dementia. And assumes that the horror of war WILL still affect many mentally ill patients.
sighted. Just imagine: there are people with serious mental illnesses: schizophrenia, dementia, psychosis or panic attacks – and then their country is invaded. Bombs explode, rockets hit, destroy the safe home, heavily armed soldiers enter the house. For many, the only option is to flee. For those who are not sick it is already a horror, for sick people it is particularly bad.
“We had some seriously mentally ill people from the exhibition accommodation,” reports Anna Lukojanova, specialist in psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology at the Wahrendorff Clinic. It’s good that they came across Lukojanova and her colleague Roman Zakhalev, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, because they both understand her – linguistically, mentally and also with a view to the cultural background. “If you speak the same language and eat the same cake on New Year’s Eve, then there is trust and gratitude that someone is there,” says Lukojanova, who was born in Russia and came to Germany from Moscow in 1990 as a so-called quota refugee.