Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border Poetry_Gift_Guide Are these meant to do

Are these meant to do more than point you to eternity

One by one they fall

often with little hope and plagued by discouraging setbacks

and shows you the way out of negativity

Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border Poetry_Gift_Guide Are these meant to doWe build border walls to keep danger out. But do we understand the danger posed by walls themselves? East Germans were the first to give the crisis a name: Mauerkrankheit, or wall disease. The afflictedeveryday citizens living on both sides of the Berlin walldisplayed some combination of depression, anxiety, excitability, suicidal ideation, and paranoia. The Berlin Wall is no more, but today there are at least seventy policed borders like it. What are