It is clear to everyone that the heatwaves of recent times are abnormal. But how can your mind and body affect a climate you are not used to?
When it is said that the human being is profoundly connected to the nature of which he is a child, it comes from itself as much as everyone change of the Earth, of the climate, of the atmosphere can affect on mind and body.
Even if it is not often rationalized, many reactions, even instinctive ones, physical responses, sensations, can originate from several factors also environmental and climatic.
And here is how the great heat waves of recent periods can have a really important impact on physical health, perhaps “easier” to perceive but also on mental health, less “evident” but not for this non-existent; rather!
Heat waves: stress, anxiety, aggression
Dehydration, fainting, a sense of malaise, drops in sugar, sunstrokes … here are some negative births of too much heat that in recent days is turning into a real threat.
Also from The Conversation there was a report of a very worrying moment; Studies were shared that attest to a considerable increase in emergency room visits due to malaise generated by temperature all place.
But what is not considered is also a less obvious type of reaction to heat, at least at first glance. In reality, however, heat can also affect everyone’s mental health as well as cognition.
The so-called stress from heat it might even damage the areas of the brain that deal with coping with certain cognitive problems; to give an example of a study by a team of Boston University where it is shown how a 2016 heat wave had negative influences on the capacity cognitive of those who were in classrooms without air conditioning.
Not to mention the fact that the hotthe discomfort caused by it and the feeling of always being in “apnea” seems to make one lose patience more easily and there is therefore a greater ease in having reactions violent and aggressive. This is also dictated precisely by the fact that reasoning is less efficient, less clear and therefore the frustration that follows leads to the release of often more controllable instincts.
It is no coincidence that the different studies conducted to understand the correlation between hot e aggression have shown that even just one or two degrees higher would already do increase le assaultsup to about 5 percent more.
And according to estimates, given the increase in temperatures, in 2090 there will be a increase of the crime globally related and also caused by the hot more and more unbearable.