A short-term impact because of property damage, loss of life or home could cause post-traumatic stress disorder, while in the long term there may be generalized anxiety around the next potential climate disaster, professor says
Jennifer Moore was helping a neighbour on flood-prone Stannus Street, in Windsor, N.S., last week when she fell face first in waist-deep brown water in her driveway.
At times, she added, she isn’t sure if symptoms like headaches, nausea and diarrhea are simply part of a stress response or a physical condition caused by exposure to the latest climate disaster in her town. Moore, who bought her Nova Scotia property in 2009, said that since 2021 she’s had to use her industrial-sized pump to flush out about 1.2 to 1.5 metres of sewage water from her basement on three occasions. “It’s very, very emotional” and “panic inducing” each time a weather alert calls for thunderstorms in the valley, she said.
“Often, there is this overwhelming feeling that climate change is so big and such a difficult challenge to overcome that we feel powerless,” she said in a recent interview. “These are all common responses to a traumatic experience, she said. “Typically, these are short-term effects that tend to resolve after several days or a few weeks, but occasionally, they will last for longer periods of time such as several weeks or months.”
For Dunfield, part of the distress is the sense that municipal and provincial political leaders aren’t moving quickly enough to repair and upgrade infrastructure – or provide reasonable offers to buy their homes. Meanwhile, moving isn’t an option due to the low prices offered for homes in her area.
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