Badursha Subramaniam
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Post by Badursha Subramaniam on Jul 16, 2015 11:50:43 GMT -4
This is a very interesting article. It was interesting how they related weather and mental health. It was also interesting to know how schizophrenia patients are affected more in the summer and fall, due to the temperate. It was also really interesting to know that the higher the temperature the higher the admissions for organic mental illnesses like dementia, mood (affective) disorder; neurotic, stress related, and somatoform disorder. It states countries like India suggest an increase prevalence of acute psychosis following viral fever, especially in winter, and the common virus is Borna Virus. I agree that governments needs to actually be prepared for mental health challenges of climate change related disasters. But what is going to happen to the mental health disaster that already happened?? And what would happen to the counties where medical care is paid for and the government is really involved into public health.
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Post by NADER RAFFI on Jul 16, 2015 12:49:05 GMT -4
I found this article intellectually stimulating.It made me think of an article i read in canada about the relationship between depression and climate in scandanavian countries,since there is very little sun exposure there.Especially in winter months the prevalance of depression and mood disorders were increased.So did the incidence of suicide attempts.How ever this article elaborates on that furtherand makes you thing of climate in terms of extremes such as global warming and tsunami etc.The physical impact would be obvious but the mental heath impacts should be dissected further since it would take time for those symptoms such as symptoms of post traumatic disorder to develope.Reaserch can help with causation and mechanism.And that information can be used to prevent occurence of mental disorders ahead of extreme climate changes
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Post by Ishminder Singh on Jul 16, 2015 14:41:12 GMT -4
The article did a great job portraying the effects of climate on mental health. While the US and UK are reducing carbon emissions to tackle severe climate changes, many developing countries are actually increasing their carbon emissions. In many developing countries, first the problem is tackling things that cause severe climate changes to prevent the problem from occurring. While some disasters like the tsunami are inevitable, there are still many steps the developing countries can take to reduce carbon emissions. The second problem faced in developing countries is identifying those that are affected by the climate/natural disasters, and getting them to want help to fix the problem. In many cultures, especially in India, having a mental condition is extremely looked down upon, and many people will try alternative approaches before they visit a medical doctor.
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Kenechukwu Udechukwu
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Post by Kenechukwu Udechukwu on Jul 16, 2015 17:15:29 GMT -4
About a year ago, I was wondering what impact climate change has on our mental health. After all, depression is already the second leading cause of disability around the world, depression can be kicked off by stress, and watching the ocean inch up to your doorstep or seeing drought destroy your crops and take away your livelihood can be pretty nerve-racking. This article kind of hints more are more on the fact these global climate changes do contribute to mental illness. Just like the research on mental illness and climate change in Australia pretty much starts and ends with a very modest and soft-spoken psychiatric epidemiologist, Helen Berry of the University of Canberra. She's actually responsible for 27 papers and books chapters published on the subject since 2011. These also kind of answers some questions concerning the relationship between climate changes and mental illness - An intensely traumatic even will have a substantial effect on mental health of so many people. A weather-related disaster is likely to be an acutely traumatic event and another thing I have realized from reading this article is that, the closer you are to the center of tragedy , the worse the effects on your mental health - when you have a one of any disaster from these climate change, the effects are long-range. With reference to Hurricane Katrina, researchers found no decline in cases of PTSD even after more than two years now. We would have to respond to future disasters in new ways.
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