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Dr Ayesha Ahmad

@academicayesha

Afghanistan, Gender Based Violence, Mental Health, Ethics, Humanitarian Response in Conflict. Trauma therapy using traditional storytelling. Views are my own.

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I’ll try to write slow & clear as I find my words to try to explain what it’s like to be work in the depths of suffering & within spaces that magnify harm #storiesarenotreceived & I don’t know what I can say or cannot say.Its hard to fight but also to not feel I shouldn’t be here

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We all have words we cannot say & reasons for this.I fought MANY hurdles to reach where I am now in academia with the goal to expose ways of suffering & silencing except I’m in deep exhaustion from observing the unethical & inhumane. This constant fight to prove #warlivesmatter

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I came from a village. I want to escape silence. I wanted to create empathy by the stories of suffering that are buried from life. “The dead story”. So why does it feel like when I try to do so I feel Im writing the end of my career, reputation & the anxiety is always so high

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I have thoughts every day about whether I should stay quiet or speak or if those who I try to reach would actually be better off without my words. Maybe I should stay silent. And if I speak, then I feel Im people are better off without.

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Any geriatricians or old age psychiatrists willing to talk to me as a senior global health and owner of a Care Home thats been in my family all through my childhood with complex nursing care in a rural area to explore collaborations of their narratives during the pandemic?

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Growing-up as a child with medic parents next door to a Care Home for elderly complex care I saw the phenomenon of death.I wish to return to my roots & explore death by dying rather death of being killed in war. As a senior lecturer in global health, it feels like kismet

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Preparing to give a very heavy talk for the wonderful Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine course at St Apothecaries’.Hopefully,will succeed in providing understanding to medical doctors preparing for humanitarian action about the suffering of civilians enduring violence in conflict

Preparing to give a very heavy talk for the wonderful Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine course at St Apothecaries’.Hopefully,will succeed in providing understanding to medical doctors preparing for humanitarian action about the suffering of civilians enduring violence in conflict
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New preprint on medRxiv Social media is an important #COVID19 information source for some #migrant and ethnic minority groups, with urgent action needed to tackle circulating #misinformation and improve vaccine uptake medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

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What does it mean when an academic specialising in trauma,receiving endless stories of suffering but when there is a moment when one needs to reach out for help,there is just silence.What does this mean for those who are buried alive under this emptiness.What if I need help too?

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This mornings lecture was on harmful traditional practices & trauma.This afternoon it’s on sexual violence in war.I must do this because o’wise souls are buried before their bodies without bringing silences to life.What to do when the world is bellowing such screams of suffering?

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📢 In 1 week, we're hosting a webinar on gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow. On March 22, 9 am GMT, join a panel of experts for this roundtable discussion inspired by UN #IWD22. Register today: bit.ly/3CQsqEH #LancetWomen

📢 In 1 week, we're hosting a webinar on gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.

On March 22, 9 am GMT, join a panel of experts for this roundtable discussion inspired by UN #IWD22.

Register today: bit.ly/3CQsqEH #LancetWomen
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I work in stopping suffered stories be silenced.I made an awful mistake.Staying silent is survival.Speaking stories of suffering leads to silence.There is no one there.Solitude is better than silence. Now I know why the silent stories build up until their last, silenced, breath.

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Have you have listened to someone’s story without ignoring turning your back feeling burdened feeling powerless without believing?How many listen?We say we must give voice to the voiceless.Listen.Someone close to you right now buried in the soil of silence the hell of a grave.

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Women die.no one cares. Every woman should be grieved.But the world I know is where I woman's death is silenced.We need to ask serious questions about how medicine and academia feeds into this dehumanising narrative.

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Our panel on land-based violence for our Land Body Ecologies festival is tomorrow evening 6.30pm - 8pm at the Wellcome Trust. There are still places left to register for. Would love to see friendly faces there! All welcome!

Our panel on land-based violence for our Land Body Ecologies festival is tomorrow evening 6.30pm - 8pm at the Wellcome Trust. There are still places left to register for. Would love to see friendly faces there! All welcome!