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Clinic helps Myanmar refugees process the trauma of war

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 For people fleeing the conflict in Myanmar, the injuries are often more than just physical.

Four years after a military coup that has morphed into a grinding civil war, experts say there is a growing mental health crisis in the Southeast Asian nation, made worse by the junta’s atrocities against civilians and a humanitarian disaster that has left more than 3 million people displaced.

They find some relief at the Mae Tao Clinic on the outskirts of Mae Sot, a border town in neighboring Thailand.

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