What is weather and mental health?
Weather conditions and their changes not only affect people's physical health, but also have a very obvious impact on people's psychological and emotional aspects. Favorable weather conditions can make people feel high, happy, and improve their quality of life and work efficiency; while unfavorable weather conditions can make people depressed, depressed, lazy, and even lead to mental illness and abnormal behavior. Research shows that high temperature, high humidity, rain and some abnormal weather events are not good for people's mental health.
According to data from the World Health Organization, the "El Niño phenomenon" from 1982 to 1983 caused about 100,000 people worldwide to suffer from depression, the incidence of mental illness increased by 8%, and traffic accidents also increased. It has been added at least 5,000 times. The reason is that abnormal weather changes such as "El Niño" cause global climate anomalies and weather disasters, which exceed the psychological endurance of some people, resulting in restlessness, mental retardation and other symptoms. The weak-willed people will also emit Hysterical cries. Generally speaking, a low-temperature environment is conducive to a better mental state, while at high temperatures or when the temperature rises, people's mental state is prone to fluctuations and abnormalities. Research by psychiatric experts has found that when the temperature is high or there is a warm current invading, the number of mentally ill patients who get up and wander around, be unable to sleep, yell and curse, and beat things increases significantly. Normal people will also have varying degrees of emotional changes. Since high temperature is not good for people's mental health, the crime rate in high temperature environments is also relatively high. On the eve of the 1996 Olympic Games, the U.S. police commissioned experts to conduct a detailed study and found that the total number of daily crime incidents in Atlanta increased with the rise in temperature. The crime rate was the highest in June and July, the hottest months, but the Olympic Games were held here. It was held for a period of time; in order to alleviate people's fear, the person in charge of the Olympic Organizing Committee once lied that the summer temperature in Atlanta would not exceed 30°C.
In fact, the working people of ancient China also discovered the connection between weather and mental health. The ancients said that "the dusk sky makes people depressed." This sentence means that in the rainy season, people's spirits are lazier and their mood is not happy. Why is this? China's medical meteorologists have discovered through in-depth research that the main reason why rainy weather affects people's mental health is because the light in rainy weather is weak, and the human body secretes more pineal hormones. In this way, the secretion concentration of thyroxine and adrenaline decreases. If it is relatively reduced, the human body's nerve cells will become "lazy" and become less "active", and people will become listless.