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Perceived Life-threat Affects Mental Health

September 11, 2010 by

Feeling like your life is in danger during an accident or disaster can have long-term negative effects on health whether or not the threat to your life was real. This is one of the results of a new doctoral thesis from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet on the experiences and mental health of Stockholm residents who survived the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean...

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