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i. sometimes i get so angry. as does the screaming like a crazy woman. i can sometimes feel the rage welling up inside then i just want to end it all. 12345678912 years. that's how long i've been here. before all the windows i feel like i'm suffocating the drains overflow and it all flows into the building you can hardly breathe. so when we live in such crowded conditions disease spreads quickly. so i ask you don't the anger grow or do they need to move on down the.
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musicians' been stuck behind these walls for 12 years. you can see the skyline but only through the by. the building is in one of the poorest districts of most karate. complex the resembles a prison. the women here live behind us the deleted scene ideas go round and round free the mind. to do case a decent it is the largest psychiatric facility in asia. and asian is a welfare organization that can be seen all of the pakistan in many areas it's taken over the responsibilities of the stage. foundation runs off maternity wards
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ambulance services along with facilities like this one a hospital come shelter for women. 15 years ago there were 400 women living here and. now there are 1700. every evening as the light fades the volunteers staff prepare for new arrivals. seracini is a city of 20000000 people a monster and this evening the monster who spit out another woman that nobody wants . thank you. but you run she is
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huge it's a dangerous city for young girls and for women especially bad. decision to use muhammad below has driven through the docking streets of the city if the night. would be updated obviously big is it going we hear that there's a woman wandering around on her own at night we immediately take her off the street and bring her back to the center because it's very dangerous for a woman to be on her own at the train or bus station or even at the police station station robot they're about why they sit here they charge us a. lot of dodgy shit that the women that we find out on the streets of karachi may be suffering from mental illness or they may have been rejected by their families or
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they were beaten and fled. that i don't know what it used. to. be of a lot of it i just got a call from the police base picked up a young girl got it. he's the g.c. officer there. was goodies and knowledge of this you know. he's everything ok. he's that the girl here sallow once your name. cindy she doesn't speak sending her only past. her name is carried out. you know that she
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says she comes from sha town. but i call the police there and no one knows her before has reported her missing. it's very late so we called you at least she'll be safe with you you'll get a lot. of men she seems a bit bewildered by chaps that's why she got lost they missed this or your lives have an affair or said. she you have to put this 2 possibilities either she wandered off from her family or her parents threw her around campus we don't know yet which is. the full. path it was headed back. to my. hand. to reach it doesn't really understand what's
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happening to have right now my. faith in pakistan people with psychological problems is seen as a back their families so many just want to get rid of them. is what you're going up the trauma that she can sleep here in the center of kanaka life and i guess i just got a 1st she'll have something to eat so i guess then she can have a bath and we'll give her some clean clothes but if they fall it has sleep 1st and then in the morning after breakfast we'll try to find her parents but after they get to the car that. is star the case is man. but in cases like hers the parents really turn up on the odd very few come to collect their children. it would
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be a miracle if they came out most of these girls end up staying here and grow up here about a possible you're just it's quite possible that we'll look for a husband for her one day. i'm is the child because the mom is 5 got us out. just a little. mohammed takes her with him. thanks was i the i. i. was i. i just at 1st i cried every day on the way home from work. i
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never even said i should give up my job but i didn't want to. i believe god has chosen me to care for the poorest of the poor. i talk to no seeing has spent a quarter of his life in news car doors. she runs the center she's all too familiar with how society in general seems so cold crazy people i hear disorder has a field day discovered families in pakistan have no idea about mental health problems so they don't want to consult a doctor in the chines food and yet these conditions could be treated right from early on as soon as the 1st symptoms emerge the doctor. has to are do was that with her i was at least a bit depressed or mentally ill sister or wife is considered a disgrace and so it's to be. that
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lady. said never again they never. acted on any area are left out. when they turn aggressive the family started get down it's sometimes they find no solution of them got that he was. i was and then they get even more aggressive the women break things they restless hit out at others threaten to kill them and so people bring them to us. generals and you don't live until sometimes they arrive in chains almost ropes tied around the hands and feet and the but those are the only one there were i i i i. i i i was.
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there are 2 categories of patients. it was 2 firstly there are those with genetic conditions. and they have congenital defects so they're born with it. a mentor who. was ordered. and then there are women who are quite normal. but they were subjected to abuse who has been so mother in laws here. a lot of them up in mistreated them in some other way . and that gradually drives them insane. you. do hear boggle but they just reach a point where they can't cope with the abuse and they develop personality disorders . and in the end they can't be kept at home anymore as he would. have.
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kalim that i hear are. you know you doing or. i had taken her tablets yeah we're very old taking an antidepressant that is a feeling better or do you still feel depressed so has your father visited you know of one who has never been not even once so ok. i. felt in my lumbar that day i woke up packed a few things i got in the car and came straight here i don't know where to go in the car does my. dad drove a. man know my name is here i'm a false image of the my father locked me up here 2 years ago because of depression
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. you're going to depression. i will be with you doesn't want to take you back oh no not so i talked to him on the phone a year ago he promised he would come and get me a bob help me go back home again bob you need to convince your father to come and get you he brought you here only he can get you out call them and let me talk to him go up to him as it'll be up to about the royal we let you talk to him before a year ago that. if you want i'll call him again. and only if he comes to get you no problem then he can go the most welcome. he'll are you still waiting for that call it's our only chance of getting out of here. she's 31 years old but she can only leave if a member of. family agrees to it. the same applies to hold the women here.
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all of them hope to leave once they perceive treatment and become stabilized again . for my the boss this is not smart her husband brought her here in 2003 to short out about that for the past 10 years she's not had a single visitor here probably been a very good idea today as she's been insisting on it and because she's more stable now and we have her address we're going to try taking her home mr trowbridge to meet up. it was issued with. oh is that a decision. father brought her here in 2006 and said she was sick.
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he said this is my daughter keep her here at the center and give her treatment. oh you've been dogged by their duty is for jr made out a mission to iraq you are expected me to tell you. how i wanted to tell a definition needed for my family beat me and didn't give me any fit the fit is that they hit me and threw me on the fill. but then i know this for they beat me with everything they could find a serious mistakes. they. made us home sensitives i mean i couldn't take it anymore i started my high says. i was doing really badly they were very difficult times for me. then they want out then they give you and if they start beating her again. listeners. that's my biggest fear is that they're not but
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that was 12 years ago now so it will be different today maybe they'll take me back and not hate me anymore. plus i have to always have big now they'll protect me. they cling on to hope hope that things have changed now that life outside will be different now. better in some way. that has each and match mark could be making the most important journey of their lives. about i don't know is the seed here do you remember.
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that my time now do you recognize the house come alive of. you wait here for us. yet the jungle you know not. could not be oh no i don't know her budget this is not why did you say you don't know how. this is not must mother enjoying her mother's indoors yet again. the mother how then admits she does know her. are you crying. to get you to take her out that you did come and sit with your mother the numbers about. her that image of him. when asked about the issue in snatch my to say that no i don't find out she's
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question now that she's useless she can't work in the house no man would want her was going out here and there will only be her again or that odd it was it was no one's visited her in 10 years she pleaded with us to be allowed to go home again she cries a lot can you let her stay here no no way i am what do you want and i'll find out about my own mother doesn't want me anymore what should i do you know i mean we've got to figure that out it was out i i know all the neighbors have turned up and they all have an opinion about what should happen to this 36 year old woman who was. then. finally the mother in law and grace she can stay for 2 or 3 days after that we'll see she said go out. for a while that the man that got it down there that's our mother doesn't want her anymore. she says they have no room use she can't afford it and we should take her
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back with us he loved to be here but they're living here with the family of her husband and her mother in law wants to give it a trying to heal though she says they'll keep her if she behaves well if not they'll send her back to one of her whoppers of his baby said i'm sure that. the fact that. i'm on my job the highlight i think they'll send her back in a few days and buy whoppers that this is. they want to keep out of that summer i never thought i'd let. on to another district and more narrow streets. this was once when i ceased.
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but everything was different now. or is it just to memory playing tricks. on leaks but there's so many cars. look like a real houses everywhere. they can i just recognize my own neighborhood any. sign of money or not it's been 10 years since i came here. during the i can't find my house it's difficult to tell it to me. solid hello winning number 144 look 515 of the most. no one's really sure when it is.
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described as her address is incomplete the one in her papers is wrong just awfully good to call well you know you are going you got to go. meet. a man i have a feeling i'm never going to go home again i'll be so sorry. i forgot in the interest of just one week. and now i'm back here again. just like missy should 3 quarters of the women that they try to return one end up back at the same time.
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sheila has hardly slept. she knows that if she should be decided today in dr no seams office. wednesday is the day that dr i asked is it's the only psychologist in the facility with 1700 patients he's kept very busy. it'll be ages before he'll they can get another appointment with him. hello doctor. if you sit down. are those my files what are you writing. or i've just seen how long you've been here.
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since 2017 years when you came here you were doing ok but your family brought you anyway. yes. so who do you want to speak to my dad now can you remember the number. there sister. this. is. hello dad. oh dad it is my healer. but that why you. can i come home. that i'm doing really well now come and get me to believe you me out there. who's going to look after me.
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we have servants and i've always taken care of myself come and take me home. yeah. i can't stand it here anymore come and get me. now no. doubt i'll put you on the loudspeaker then you can speak to everyone that it was to go on. so good afternoon how are you. i'm fine thank you. i know my daughter has been with you for 2 years. but my son is sick. my brother isn't well either. please pray for us and keep my daughter there. but she wants to live with the you she's stable now she's been in treatment for 2 years she's doing really well on the medication she's very stable and she even helps take care
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of other patients you know no she's not well she wanted to kill herself. over the years but back then she wasn't treated. no she was on medication back then too i have her diagnosis i went to doctors all over karate. wait a minute let me pass you to dr in a scene she knows your daughter very well have a word with her. and we're happy to keep utility here but she is young she has a whole life ahead of her she deserves a 2nd chance. as long as she takes a medication there's no risk then she's quite normal you know one of the this is me they eat. i am sick to you know. very sick. and my son is not well either. seeing to his treatment takes up a. a lot of my time. of course they can obviously last should i go to bed here or.
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he's in iraq. he says i can take it back. to her what he doesn't know the responsibility. of not i will never talk to my father again he's dead to me just like i am to him. crooked crowd he. up in the building pilgrimage to haven they should take you back up what would you yes what did they say my mother doesn't want so she said no.
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natch much she was back at the center. found his standing outside the gate his family didn't even keep her for 48 hours. but i think what did you do over the last 2 days i took the idea. of us dishes whose dishes my mother is here and now your back. is they said that come and visit me that's what they said. yes so. i will visit you my uncle and my sister in. her her keep. her. voice we tried our best to return you to your family up there you go now you'll have to stay as they don't want you. day is that ok.
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250 metres long and attention 20 meters wide. that's the size of there in triumph. a world where the days cost more slowly than elsewhere. like a sad monotonous warms. the world outside doesn't one thing's been. seen as a disgrace to society 2nd class citizen. didn't even have a nickname for. the ghosts of corruption. a nickname that holds them.
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