Mental health, Oct. 7 -- One morning, in a village in the green mountains of Kashmir, a Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team pulls up as children play cricket outside, some pausing to wave. The MSF team splits up, each taking different sections of the village.

"When we first started working here, people were suspicious," says Taheem Jafar, a community mental health worker with MSF. "They would ask, 'Why are you here? What do you want from us?' Now they recognize our work."

"Remember, we're not here to diagnose or label," says Sabreena Hassan, an MSF health promotion supervisor. "We're here to listen, educate, and connect people with services if they need them."

Taheem and her colleague Rayees Ahmed Mir approach a...