Extended detention worsening depression on Nauru and Manus Island [TheGuardian.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/18/154:00 AM

Asylum seekers held offshore are continuing to self-harm, attempt suicide and go on hunger strike, and grow more depressed the longer they are held on Manus and Nauru, new data from International Health and Medical Services reveal.

Children suffer especially acutely, from bed wetting, nightmares, ongoing effects of trauma and torture in previous countries, as well as “situational crisis” from their current detention, IHMS reports.

[For more of this story, written by Ben Doherty and Nick Evershed, go to http://www.theguardian.com/aus...uru-and-manus-island]

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