Photographer:
Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Title:
The curse of mental illness in Pakistan
Location:
Pakistan
Many rural residents still require to send the patients to shrines, where they may be chained, neglected and poorly looked after. Shrines offer draconian approach to mental illness. They offer them ancient rituals for healing the mental patients to take out the evil spirits. According to the local beliefs the mental illness is labeled as being possessed by an evil spirit known as "Jinn"It's assumed that the ones who could break the chains would be the only ones that can be healed in the shrine
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