Mental health is 'bad' or 'very bad' for most Afghan women, UN says

Yogita LimayeAfghanistan correspondent Even before the Taliban takeover, the UN estimates that one in two people – most of them women – suffered from psychological distress in war-torn Afghanistan. The severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban government since 2021 has further exacerbated the mental health crisis in the country. UN Women says seven in ten women describe their mental health as ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’. A psychologist had described it to us as a "pandemic of