Research has found that up to half of people who live through a disaster struggle with anxiety and depression, substance use or post-traumatic stress disorder, an expert says.
By Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times This story includes a discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, help is available. You can call or text 988 to be connected to theTAMPA, Fla. — Arthur Schnurpel’s daughter heard it in his voice. Not his usual soft-spoken tenor, but something different — inconsolable.
Rescue crews eventually whisked the couple to a hospital, where his wife, who had Stage 5 Parkinson’s, was kept. Schnurpel begged to stay, but was discharged and sent away. A full-time delivery driver, he had ridden out the storm in a neighbor’s room of the building where he had lived for nearly three decades. When the floodwaters came into his bottom-floor apartment, they left an inch of mud and soiled furniture behind.They found his body the following day.
The report urged leaders to build mental health services into hurricane response plans — especially in the long recovery phase.There was the 81-year-old man whose winter home was ruined, who was despondent over the loss of his belongings. Rates leapt the highest two years post-disaster, she found, when the initial response had faded but damage remained extensive.
A skeleton in sunglasses sits beside a sign reading "Just waiting for the insurance check," outside the closed Kona Kai Motel on Sanibel Island, Fla., Thursday, May 11, 2023. In Sanibel, the lingering damage is not quite as widespread as in Fort Myers Beach, but many businesses remain shuttered as they are repaired and storm debris is everywhere.
Laura Sampson, a professor at Stony Brook University who focuses on the effects of disaster on health, has studied community responses after hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, Irma and Maria. Her takeaway: The vulnerable get more vulnerable. She was on her way to deliver aid to the displaced, part of a larger response she was leading as president and CEO of the United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades counties.as the storm angled toward their coast, fielding calls from frightened residents.
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