The Effects of Disasters on Mental Health

Sebastian younger: Why do large scale disasters produce such mentally healthy conditions? Sebastian quotes from a 19 79 paper by an irish psychologist named lyons. He found that during the belfast riots in 19 69 and 70, suicide rates fell by 50%. When people are actively engaged in a cause, their lives have more meaning,. with resulting improvement in mental health. In kiev, the midon protest camp was kept alive by a network of activists who provided food, medical supplies and other perishables to the activists in the camp. If you don't have a community to reach out to, then your hopelessness doesn't have any place to go. A hypothetical civil war might present