Thank you for the question.

I feel that, for me, it became a part of my mental health already. I guess this feeling of uncertainty and of not understanding what would be next makes me differ a lot from my friends abroad, for example, who are pretty sure about their next years. This also includes people who are in free territories of Ukraine but are still experiencing war.

Also, I have close friends who are experiencing horrors at night. They're returning back. They have the same horrors that remain with them. People become more anxious. As I talked with psychologists, your concentration can be decreased because of this fact, because your mental health is trying to work with everything that you know. I still feel that I'm missing, sometimes, part of my memories because I'm simply trying to move on and live my life.

What can be done? I guess it's really important to have centralized psychological health that is available—not only for people who have lots of material resources, who live in big cities and who have money. Also, I am really thankful that I found Voices of Children at some point in time. We started working with them a really long time ago, and this helped.

I also feel that the involvement of youth, children and so on, is really important. When you feel that you are needed and that you are helping others, and when you find people with similar experiences and have that peer support from people who experienced the same, sometimes it's the most important thing to live your life.

I guess the thing that includes all the things that I said is that we need to speak about this experience, because it is only if you are formulating it from your head to text, to talking and to everything, that you then finally understand what happened to you. Even if you have lots of time to think without Internet, without connection and without everything, you cannot reflect there, so you need to go and understand that now it's part of you. We cannot cancel out experiences. We can only try to make something so that other people would not experience the same as us.

Thank you.

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