(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121116-afg-da-02.photoblog900.jpg)Adnan Abidi / ReutersPatients sit inside their ward at a mental hospital in Kabul on November 11, 2012. The war in Afghanistan is creating a generation of people mentally damaged by their exposure to incessant conflict, a buildup of problems which could undermine the country's reconstruction and development efforts. Reuters reports — On a low bed in a quiet, all-female hospital ward, a depressed Afghan teenager huddles silently under blankets, her mother close by. In a nearby room are men suffering from schizophrenia, delusions of persecution and power, anxiety and panic disorders.
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Among them are some of the unseen victims of the war in Afghanistan: a generation of people mentally damaged by their exposure to incessant conflict (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49851055).(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121116-afg-da-01.photoblog900.jpg)Adnan Abidi / ReutersGhazia Sadid, 26, a patient suffering from depression, speaks during an interview with Reuters at a mental hospital in Kabul on November 14, 2012. Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/34923291/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=34923291&wbSection=news)(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-afghanistan2012-donotarchive/ss-121009-afghanistan-tease.380;380;7;70;0.jpg) (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/34923291/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=34923291&wbSection=news)Aref Karimi / AFP - Getty ImagesMore than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.Launch slideshow
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