At least once during the daytime, she says she thinks about killing herself.
“Perhaps I had better die,” the woman muttered. “But I want to die in Hirono.”
Cases of depression and alcoholism are rising in number among evacuees of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear accident.
A team of mental care specialists from Kyoto Prefecture treated 262 people at seven evacuation centers, including one in Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima Prefecture, until July.
The team said 51 evacuees, or 19.5 percent, were suffering from reactive depression.
Toru Ishikawa, president of the Tohokukai Medical Hospital in Sendai, says the survivors of disasters have become more susceptible to depression and alcoholism since moving into temporary housing from evacuation centers. That’s because many of them now live alone.
Full story at; Depression, alcoholism take toll on lonely evacuees in disaster areas – English.
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