First Japan was affected with the largest and most devastating earthquake ever measured in the country, triggering a massive tsunamis, that erased everything in its path. And now, if thats not enough unimaginable to a damaged nuclear power plant spewing radiation into the atmosphere.
It seems like a nightmare that go no way. There were fresh explosions of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, North of Tokyo, almost daily, and people are either nearly 150 miles is evacuated or told to stay young.
Evelyn Bromet, Professor of Psychiatry and behavioral science at Stony Brook University in New York, the groundbreaking studies of Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the three mile Iceland spoke with FoxNews.com about the mental fallout from this series of disasters.
Question: how are the Japanese people are going to deal with all of this-how to they survive mentally?
A. "we thought Haiti was unprecedented and Chernobyl - but that's three disasters in one - it's actually more, because now we have hundreds of thousands of people, the homeless are." Think of the psychological consequences - it will be considered very out and very long-term. Of course, at first, the immediate needs are to security issues, but I think if people are clearly in panic, and people are clearly show signs of that, I think that doctors who have to deal with right off the bat. I will say what is really important that doctors treat mental health problems with as much care and respect as physical health problems. "
Question: we learned, you ground-breaking studies on three mile Iceland (1979 in Pennsylvania) and then in Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine) - what have from these disasters?
A. "I think, we have learned lessons from both of them." It is not helpful, if officials from various agencies are not honest with people about what is, and this is what happened in both these situations. It is also not helpful conflicting information about how much radiation was leaked, when media reports. When this happens, they destroy the confidence of the public authorities, and ultimately it is the authorities that deal with the clean-Up and the resolution. This trust - the last thing you want to do is to destroy and that is what in three mile Iceland and Chernobyl incident happened. "The solution to this is immediately to truthful for the Government."
Question: What can learn Japan from these disasters?
A. "they learn to be, that the mental consequences enormous, and that these are long-term issues." So what intervention they develop in Japan for the treatment of acute stress reactions - they also need to go to check how they want to in the long term - handle the stress response, because if people think that she've been exposed to radiation, their health anxiety is not away easily. It is not we can see something, and we know not enough scientifically for a physician someone say that they will never have nothing to fear, or your child will never have to fear nothing, can result in the long-term fear. "
Question: is making sure that people with mental health problems are not branded also very important, as well as – right?
A. "Yes, because I think part of what happened was after Chernobyl, that evacuated very were people stigmatized people, who were were afraid of them." They thought they were contaminated and that they could contaminate other people. You were not accepted. "No one wanted to play with their children."
Question: occur what kind of emotional problems after disasters like this?
A. "the three big ones are anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder." The health-related anxiety due to the radiation is unique in this. The question is not how much radiation was leaked, - it is the fact that radiation was leaked. It is one of the greatest fears of all time. "In Japan this is in connection with which so many terrible things occur, could take health-related fear on a still larger position."
Question: are spinning prevent done, control the emotional trauma can what?
A. "I think education interventions are very helpful, but they must be carried out repeatedly." The role of primary care doctors is also very important. Conditions such as anxiety and depression can maintain, and it is very important that this be taken seriously. Also, I think that ultimately, must the people of Japan to hear that it was forgotten by the world. Check out Haiti. "Here the messages plays no longer."
Question: ten years on the road - which expect type of State you be in Japan?
A. most people are more resilient than you could imagine. I would be very surprised - even with the size of this disaster - if you find the most people always mentally disabled. I don't think it will happen. But any disaster happens in a unique context. "Chernobyl 20 years later - it's hard to compare, what just happened, and you should not do it, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that 20 years the street after bottom-, that this part of their collective memory are."
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