Try not to kill people. You will feel better!
Abdul Rahim Halimyar, 48, runs the only psychology clinic in Kandahar. He sits in a barren room with concrete walls and listens to the noises wafting up from the ancient bazaar at the heart of the city.
He hears terrible stories from the people who climb the narrow staircase to his office. The market is quieter these days, as people flee the fighting in southern Afghanistan, and nearly every visitor to Dr. Halimyar’s clinic is suffering the effects of the renewed war.
Many of his visitors say they don’t understand why they feel anxious or depressed. But the reasons emerge as they describe how their lives have been destroyed by this year’s rising insurgency: dead relatives, smashed homes, harrowing escapes.