The Psychological Effects of Abafan's Children

A third of Abafan's survivors still experience bad dreams or difficulty sleeping due to intrusive thoughts regarding the disaster. One local doctor later wrote, By every statistic, patient scene, prescriptions written, deaths, I can prove that this is a village of excessive sickness. It should also be noted that despite these problems, the birth rate rose considerably in the years following disaster and remarkably out of proportion to surrounding towns and villages. In short, this is a kind of deep psychological programming that's normally triggered by apocalyptic level disasters,. The kind meant to prevent the extinction of the human race. This all played out in the tiny village of AbafAn, after a day that for many really was the end