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Inas Sherry wrote in Asharq Al-Awsat:
“Lebanese are living the worst life in the world”, a recent conclusion reached by the Global “Gallup” Index, noting that only 4 percent of Lebanese value their lives positively, enough to consider them “prosperous”, which it’s the worst “Gallup” record result of any country. .
This result does not seem shocking to any Lebanese citizen, even if it is based on a calendar drawn up by “Gallup” in 2019, as the crises in Lebanon began last year and intensified this year, especially after the Corona epidemic and the port explosion, which increased the suffering of life. Lebanese newspaper.
And it’s no wonder, with all these pressures, that nerve drugs and tranquilizers were among the first drugs to be disconnected from the Lebanese market, after talking about the possibility of lifting drug subsidies, as the Lebanese were rushed to buy these drugs and stock them completely, as they did with drugs for cancer and chronic diseases, according to the head of the Pharmacists Union, Ghassan Al-Amin, noted in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, that the percentage of consumption of nerve drugs increased from 2015 to this year by 20 percent. The increase in the consumption of neurological drugs is understandable on a psychological level, as stated by the specialist in clinical psychology Rania El-Bobo, pointing out in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, that the Lebanese citizen “was tired of looking for solutions and lost hope of find them. Emotion, instead of looking for a cure, and that may be related to the fact that tomorrow is unknown “
A homeland turned into a prison
If the percentage of Lebanese experiencing pain doubled, according to Gallup, from 2018 to 2019, to 43 percent, accompanied by an increase in anxiety to 40 percent and pressure to 61 percent, then now we can speak of “some type of disorder. ” After the trauma at the collective level, the Lebanese live ”. According to Al-Bobo, “everyone in Lebanon lives in a state of fear, anxiety, emptiness and rumination of dark thoughts all the time”, which “makes the Lebanese live a kind of collective depression that they express in their daily lives and your relationships with others, especially family. Therefore, we can witness an increase in cases of domestic violence and crimes that can occur for simple reasons like the right of way and even an increase in suicidal thoughts.
The National Commission of Lebanese Women indicated that the number of calls received on the hotline to report complaints of domestic violence between February (February) and October (October) increased by 51 percent.
Regarding crimes, “Information International” stated that the number of deaths increased during the first 9 months of 2020 by 100 percent, compared to the same period in 2019.
In terms of suicide, Lebanon did not witness an increase in the number of cases, but it was surprising, for example, that there were four suicides in two days last July.
Al-Boubou speaks of the insecurity of the Lebanese citizen, and of the presence of a system that protects him in addition to the feeling of being tied up and chained, “as if the citizen were imprisoned in a great homeland from which he is prohibited from leaving for the international airport procedures related to Corona, and that most countries in the world do not receive Lebanese for reasons related to the epidemic or other politicians ”. Adding that the most difficult thing is that the citizen is chained inside the prison with an authority that controls the details of his life threatening him with his food and health security, which makes him feel that he is deprived of will, so he looks for any hope , even if it is completely risky, as is the case of the Lebanese who decided to migrate by sea illegally in boats of death.
According to United Nations statistics, about 30 ships left Lebanon between last July and October, on board, in addition to the displaced Syrians, a large number of Lebanese, especially from Tripoli (northern Lebanon and the poorest cities in the Mediterranean), some of whom were forced to throw their children away. At sea after their death because they could not withstand the difficult travel conditions.
Although El-Boubou points out that the catastrophic situation in the situation “the Lebanese get used to these inhuman scenes and adapt in a negative way, which indicates the deterioration of the psychological condition of the people,” he points out that the continuation of the situation as it can lead to “an increase in mental illness, surrender or a massive explosion because there is something left that you may fear losing.”
Wholesale disappointments and shocks
The rate of positive experiences among the Lebanese, according to Gallup, dropped significantly last year and negative experiences increased. However, this year the matter does not need reports, so it is enough to talk about the experience of the explosion of the port, which left constant fear and tension, according to Firas Uhud. Young survivors of the explosion. On the day of the explosion, Firas was in a place near the port, and was filming clouds of smoke from the fire that preceded the explosion from the window of his car, after which a sound that he did not forget to this day it caused the windows of his car to break, which had traveled by meters.
Firas recounts how he and his wife, who was with him in the car on the day of the explosion, became infected with attacks of fear when they heard any sound, and how his wife ran for days while descending the stairs in fear of another explosion, barely He realized that it was six o’clock, that is, minutes before the time it happened. It has the first explosion.
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