War - effects on mentally ill?

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Have there been any serious studies (preferably from scientific or medical press) on the effects of 9/11 and after on people suffering mental illness? Esp. paranoid schizophrenia and severe depression, and people who were already prone to apocalyptic fantasies. Has it slowed some people's recovery, or made it impossible?

― dave q, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...or, did some formerly completely psychotic people become lucid as their millenarian visions were realized?

― dave q, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Dave,

Not directly related to your question, but 'Trauma' by Shoshana Felman is very interesting. Its about loads of things; chapters on Gulf War Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the effects on perception of time caused by traumatic personal (and political) experience, and also how trauma engenders a sense of group and individual identity.

― Will, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well my housemate's def. gone off the deep end - effectively saying that extremism in the pursuit of "terrorists" is no vice, and that it's fine to literally roast suspected accomplices over an open flame, as Mid East-stationed U.S. officials did to a collaborator in the '93 WTC attacks. He's taking it real personal ad it's scary to see his reason fly out the window. He's not a mentalist (to my knowledge) but with the amount of weed he smokes and the embarrassing theories about Mars and the Masons that entertains, I am worried about him.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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