Covid Chronicles: I Am My Own Psychologist

In this heartrending testimony, a female asylum-seeker “shadow girl” describes her health issues and the enduring problems she has experienced in accessing services. “I am my own psychologist”, she says, because government policies fail lone women asylum seekers with mental health problems. #ChooseToChallenge lack of access to health services.

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This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants.

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