Hurricanes: Stress Tips for Afterwards

9 Tips for Coping with a Hurricane
https://psychcentral.com/blog/9-tips-for-coping-with-a-hurricane/

With another hurricane on the warpath up the East Coast of the U.S. this week, many people are scrambling for shelter and safety. Evacuations are taking place, and while everyone is rightfully focused on their physical safety, our emotional health is at risk during times of increased stress too. There are ways you can better cope emotionally with an impending hurricane — to brace yourself emotionally from the significant amounts of stress you’re about to endure.

One of the most important things to keep in mind is that    ---CONTINUED at LINK---

Mental Stress for Hurricane Survivors
https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/news/20060512/mental-stress-for-hurricane-survivors

May 12, 2006 -- With the Atlantic hurricane season starting in less than two weeks, a new report shows that hurricanes can cast a long shadow on survivors' mental healthmental health.

The report comes from sociology graduate student David Russell and colleagues at Florida State University. Russell's team studied 975 adolescents in Florida's Miami-Dade County who lived through 1992's Hurricane Andrew.

"At the time, the damage inflicted by Hurricane Andrew was unprecedented in U.S. history," write Russell and colleagues.

Data came from mental health surveys. The youths took the first survey before Hurricane Andrew and the other surveys over the five to seven years after the hurricane.

The findings were presented in New Orleans at the Southern Sociological Society's annual meeting and have been submitted for review to the journal Social Forces.   ---CONTINUED at LINK---

Managing Traumatic Stress: After the Hurricanes
http://apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=107https://www.apa.org/topics/hurricane-stress

  Understanding common responses to extreme events can help you to cope effectively with your feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Putting into practice some of the tips in this guide can help you along the path to managing the storm’s aftermath. ---CONTINUED---