Alireza, 16, believes that everyone who had made their way to Europe “carry his own depression.” Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
It’s getting late but it still played music inside Samir’s room at HVB home outside Stockholm. On the wall of his room have someone painted a branch with pink flowers.
– Cherry flowers. As those in the Royal Garden, says Samir.
He knows how the buds appear. For he has already seen them flower. Samir’s trip to Sweden started back in 2013. But some experiences from the flight from Afghanistan still feels like yesterday.
The loneliness, unrest, fear of failure, not to achieve, to do parents disappointed, the experience that many of the young people on housing parts.
Unaccompanied children seeking psychiatric help has increased, according to the child and Adolescent psychiatry, child and Adolescent psychiatry in Stockholm.
Samir roll up red shirt, showing a scar that goes right over his navel.
– When I came to Germany, I got emergency surgery. I had so much pain in my stomach. I still do not really know what happened is that I was very scared.
Samir also tells blows he received from the Turkish border police and about how he had to abandon his little brother who could not run as fast.
When Samir finally reached Sweden did not stop the tragedy. One day he received a call that his little sister had drowned. The boat capsized in the water, dragging his sister. She got stuck under the boat. Her life was lost.
– I think a lot of it, says Samir.
He is combined when he talks about what makes the most evil. The eyes are shiny. But no tears.
Further along the corridor living Mostafa, 17. He usually watch a movie before he falls asleep. For him, the worst evenings, then the thoughts and recollections of the exodus up with him.
– I can not sleep. I ask the staff to fetch medicine for me. Sleeping pills. It helps a little, said Mostafa.
He is also from Afghanistan. Throughout 2015 searched 23,480 unaccompanied Afghan child asylum in Sweden. They accounted for more than half of all Afghans who sought asylum during the year.
– I see things in front of me in the dream. It hurts in my chest when I think about it. As a strong pain in my heart, I can not even talk, said Mostafa.
Insomnia is a of the consequences of perceived trauma. Using tablets may help temporarily, but many young people feel that they have difficulty to get up in the morning and go to school then.
– I would like to have the help of a doctor. I wish I could just erase everything that I have in my head about the escape. Or get help to remove the worst. I want a normal life.
Do you know that there is good help to get in Sweden?
– I went to the doctor and said I can not sleep. They say that I should try to think of other things. I got no help. What should I do?
Mostafa, 17, the sleeping pills if it becomes too difficult to settle. Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
Sometimes you can hear the beautiful song from one of the rooms at the HVB-home. Then it is not seldom Alireza, 16, who sings. He says that he has one goal that drives him – to make their parents proud.
– Anyone who has been to Europe carries its own depression that we have suffered so much under way. I’m depressed. I want help.
He talks about when the boat overturned off the Greek coast, on the days he spent in custody in police stations, and about smugglers who cheated him and his friends to walk for hours in the mountains.
– I’ve seen dead people. I’m fortunate to still live. No one should have to experience this, says Alireza.
According to a recent report from Amnesty International takes the hospitals in the area on Turkey’s borders daily receive shots wounded or dead civilians who tried to cross the border with the help of smugglers.
Samir, 18, thinks a lot about her sister who did not survive the flight. Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
Samir, who lives in the room with cherry blossoms, is 18 and has been granted asylum in Sweden and think school is important. Next to the bed is a dictionary and his Swedish is getting better every day.
Even Samir have difficulty falling asleep. He thinks about beating the Turkish border police subjected him to.
What to do in the future?
– I want to become a police officer.
why do you want to become a police officer when police made you so badly?
– I want to be like the Swedish police. They are very kind. I want to help others, not by the police in Turkey.
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