The Current13:53Mental health crisis brewing after earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Two months have passed since the earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, but the traumatic experience still lives with Melisa Gökmen.
“The moment I enter the house, I’m afraid that everything will happen again,” she told The Current.
Gökmen, 23, hasn’t stepped foot inside her apartment in Malatya, Turkey, since Feb. 6 — the day the 7.8 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit. She’s spent the last several weeks in the Turkish city of Tekirdağ, where she’s receiving psychological help from a psychiatrist.
She said it’s been difficult to sleep at night knowing that her
