The paintings, sketches, sculpture and video are on display at Ukrainian House, a sprawling cultural center in Kyiv.
“Psychologists say it is required to accept the current reality of war because remaining in constant tension and states of shock and stress is counterproductive in the long run.”
Ukraine can calculate the agony of war in many ways: lives lost, homes destroyed, families turned into refugees.
This can be traced directly to the Soviet era, when the government often claimed political dissidents had “psychiatric problems” and locked them up in mental institutions.
“I just wanted to bring it to the wider public and to diagnose depression and anxiety as widespread problems,” said Roman Havrysh, one of the co-founders.
Havrysh and his business partner, neuroscientist Sergiy Danylov, have created a rapid online test for screening both civilians or soldiers.