In The Largely Unacknowledged Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health by Eva Gifford and Robert Gifford, the effects of climate change on people who are easily affected by climate change minds. Stress, anxiety, and PTSD have been some reported side effects on people due to climate change. In Love as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks the ideas that love is needed for everyone to come together to make change is explored. Love and unity is needed to make a revolution and if you don’t have love then everyone will want different things and the revolution will fail. These text are connected because if people come together after a disaster to make change then less people would have mental health issues.
From personal experience it is really hard to get your life back to normal after a natural disaster. However when you have loved one who support you and help you get back on your feet things are much easier. I think that if someone didn’t have that support especially if they are a single parent then that could be an extremely stressful situation. At the time that Katrina hit my mom was a single parent with two young kids and I could only imagine what she had to go through. At the end of the day people all came together and we got our lives back in New Orleans.
Liberation- act of making someone free (adapted from Webster)
Quintessential-typical or stereotypical (adapted from Webster
PTSD- A disorder where people have trouble recovering from a bad experience (adapted from Webster)
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