War drove Labon Doka at the age of 20 to abandon his home in Sudan for a refugee camp in Ethiopia. It was in the refugee camp that his behavior started to change, subtly at first, and then more drastically. He eventually stopped going to the school where he was a teacher and it was not long before he could no longer support himself. In 2013, he joined his father, who was living in Maban, a country in South Sudan not far from the Sudanese border. Labon’s mental health continued to deteriorate. They tried traditional healers, but nothing seemed to work. Then, in October 2013, they learned about mental health care services provided by International Medical Corps to refugees living in Maban.
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