How does the terrorism influence mental health of the Earth population?

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 10, 2007 @ 9:34 am

Terrorist attacks to cities influence mental health not only of those who has directly suffered in their result, but also of those people who lives far and to whom danger does not directly threaten.
The team of researchers from London has lead an interrogation according to which , about 11-13 % of all population of Globe can have mental frustration within the next six weeks in case of terrorist influence on city area.
Chris Brewin, the professor of clinical psychology, has defined, that among suffered from a terrorist attack, about 30-40 % will suffer posttraumatic stressful frustration and that at 20 % symptoms of infringement will be registered in 2 years after the attack.
Nightmares, persuasive memoirs, irritability are the main symptoms of posttraumatic stressful frustration.
The hardest symptoms are shown some days later after the event, and then fall on 2/3 within two weeks.
At the analysis of a mental condition of New York citizens it was found out, that about 5 % of the population suffers from the symptoms of posttraumatic stressful frustration.
Children are much more subjected to the symptoms, than adults because they do not possess ability to understand when the direct danger has already passed.
The population of other planet suffers from symptoms of frustration most sharply within first 6 weeks. The quantity of victims has made about 13 % of all mankind.



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