Comments (0) Mar 03 2008

Here’s an article about the residents of Sderot search for mental piece amongst all the rocket terror they have experienced over the past seven years…

From HAARETZ:

In Qassam-battered Sderot, mental therapy center is calmest place in town
By Fadi Eyadat

P., a mental patient in her 60s, sat yesterday at the Enosh occupational therapy center in Sderot, making clay flowers. She stuck the round flowers onto a mask inspired by her son, who is hospitalized in a psychiatric ward at Be’er Sheva’s Soroka Medical Center. He has yellow curls, like the clay flowers.

For the past three years, P. and her son have been receiving treatment at psychiatric facilities since they were brutally attacked by burglars in their home. Since then, P. has been home alone, visiting her son once a week. She came to Israel eight years ago, and has spent most of her life here in the shadow of the Qassam - she hardly knows what “normal” life in Israel is.

“Last Thursday, a Qassam fell near the house. All the glass shattered. Neighbors helped me clean everything up,” she says, her speech slurred, a side effect of the pills she takes. Recreating the event makes her gasp for breath as if it just happened. She hides her face in shaking hands, shutting down. Her anxiety is much greater than that of anyone else here.

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Comments (0) Mar 02 2008