Posted on 03/14/2017 12:15:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It's a dream many city-dwellers long for: moving to a spacious house surrounded by greenery in the countryside, where they plan to raise their family.
In 1996, Heather Shepherd, now 50, and her family did just that.
But two years later, not long after work was completed on their rural home, they got a sign of what it really meant to live in their new village: It was prone to flooding.
With floods -- as well as storms, heat waves and droughts -- expected to increase in frequency thanks to climate change, the impact such trauma may have on the minds of those affected is something doctors, policymakers and governments are considering when planning services to help populations at-risk.
"One of the major health effects of flooding seems to be the mental health aspects," said James Rubin, a psychologist whose recent research looked into the psychological impact of people both directly and indirectly effected by floods.
These types of natural disasters are expected to rise in frequency due to climate change, and Rubin feels that the mental health aspect deserves more attention.
"Stress has clear physiological effects," said Susan Clayton, professor of psychology at Wooster University in the UK, who also believes that disasters such as flooding, heat waves and drought have a significant impact on the state of mind of millions around the world.
Clayton believes that when dealing the mental health aspects, climate change can be broken down into three main categories: natural disasters such as floods and storms, slower changes such as an increasing global temperature, and the loss of social networks or social capital.
With the slower changes come consequences such as aggression and violent behavior associated with higher temperatures, isolation and depression linked to forced migration and landscape changes, and the overall impact of stress.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Worrying over the most idiotic things can still take a physical toll on you, yes.
Adults knew that already, libtard author.
I just want any leftist to name a single event or trend short of glaciers covering all of north america which would cast doubt on global warming. Too be fair liberals would claim that glaciers covering north america was consistent with the models and more proof of global warming
For those suffering the delusion that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, there is an easy fix.
Stop exhaling.
There is actually a SciFi book like that, “Fallen Angels” by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
Life’s hard, give us Socialism!! sarc/>
Global elitists create a psychological problem for which they alone have the solution.
Yawn. Shrinks inventing disorders again so they can bill insurance companies
The most successful scam in history.
That's the result of failing top do your homework before making the move.
Apparently, PTSD can now be acquired because you once stubbed your toe, or perhaps you had a paper cut.
They pay people to write bull$hit articles like this. Maybe I can come up with a couple to supplement my income!
PTSD because you don’t know or understand what the weather is?
I heard obesity is linked to Global Warming too.
Global Warming invented and brought to your living room by the fraud news department at CNN.
That's like somebody buying land in Death Valley, expecting to start a rice farm because the land is well below sea level. Must be moist and easily watered, right ???
Some days I just can’t take the bullshi* of CNN...this is one of those days.
SIX MONTHS LATER ...
"It's been terrible living here. So many of those twisty whirlwind things that have destroyed everything three times over. Must be caused by global warming ..."
Is there not a consensus, if you can call it that, at least with the authors of the IPCC that 2% is the maximum warming they are looking for?
Someone needs to explain that to the sky is falling crowd. I have heard some of the most dire predictions, such as our atmosphere turning into the atmosphere they have on Venus.
2% would pose some challenges, but for heaven sake, it isn’t Armageddon.
Excuse me. It’s worrying about CNN Fake News that depresses people.
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