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Can climate change cause mental troubles?

AIMAN INAM

FLORIDA: It is certain that climate change triggers disastrous effects on Earth. However, what pundits, in their latest breakthrough, have learnt sounds strange yet true!

They ascertain that changes in ecology could bring some acute psychological chaos as well.

Climate change provokes adverse weather and this causes other natural disasters.

This may have abrupt impacts on mental health leaving humans in strain and shock because of personal wounds, loss of a loved one or assets etc.

Non-constructive emotions such as fear, fury, trauma and other profound ones manipulate primary reactions. As a result people end up in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Referring to the Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, researchers cite the instance that scores of folks who underwent the severe storm have been reported with PTSD. Approx.  49 percent came out with an anxiety or mood disarray.

It is worth mentioning here that alterations in climate affect agriculture, infrastructure as well as livability that sequentially influence employments and excellence of life.

Due to this, people opt for migration and this will certainly wreak mind concerns.

So as to ward off negative psychological effects of climate change, individuals should develop resilience that means support and uphold their social connections.

Personal ability to bear up trauma is augmented when they are associated with others. It is because higher levels of societal support throughout and subsequent to the tragedy are linked with reduced rates of psychological suffering.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.