Illustration by Tawfiq Dawi BEIRUT — M. had not slept for two months when she reached out to Jouhaina Mouslem asking for psychological help. “This woman was devastated, collapsed,” recalled Mouslem, a psychologist originally from Aleppo and currently active in the mental health programs of the ‘Women Now’ NGO in Lebanon. M. had been detained in a Syrian regime prison. After being released, her husband left her, so she fled to Lebanon, leaving her two children in Syria. M. remarried and had a son, but her second husband also left her. She was in a critical economic situation. “She had depression, acute anxiety; she went through all her Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms living alone,” Mouslem explained.