Some barely sleep. Others fear spending time indoors. And many more have developed a profound fear of the mountains that had been their source of solace and wellbeing.
Turkish earthquake survivors clinging to the foot of soaring cliffs ringing ancient Antakya are quietly suffering the lingering toll of a disaster that killed more than 50,000 people two months ago.
"But even if you sleep in a tent, you think about it, you remember everything, you dream about it," he added.Volunteer psychiatrist Eralp Turk tries to heal the anguish by zipping around the disaster zone with a box full of pills in his car and a notepad for recording emotions. The 67-year-old spent half her life savouring Mount Staurin's dramatic cliffs and reassuring serenity.
"We sat at the foot of the mountain, the children played, there was the smell of flowers, trees," she sighed."Rocks bigger than this tent fell on us," she said."Some psychiatrist came by once. I think that helped," she added without much conviction.Social worker Aysen Yilmaz said the people she consults in Turkey's tent cities were showing all the symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
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