Psychiatric experts warn that the limits placed on people's activities will result in a major mental health emergency: summer seasonal affective disorder.
Dr. Paul Desan, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, told ABC News that the hotter temperatures, combined with the disruption of a normal summer routine could make more people more depressed, agitated and in need of professional counseling.
"We usually prescribe light therapy where we have a patient look at a bright light machine for about 30 minutes in the morning," Desan said. "That usually helps for the winter seasonal affective disorder."experience seasonal affective disorder and it typically lasts about 40% of the year, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
Depression in the forms of agitation, aggression and more irritability are seen in patients who are affected by summer SAD, she said. To escape the heat, people crowd Justa Center, which operates as a cooling center during a record-breaking heat wave, on July 16, 2023, in Phoenix.Desan said that these limits on activities will have short-term mental health effects on people living in their heat domes.
He said that climate change-induced phenomenon also prompted mental health issues related to fear, he said. Desan said that while there isn't a specific treatment for the disorder, like the winter SAD, anyone who feels like they are suffering from it should reach out to a mental health professional for an appointment.
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