What is weather and mental health?

Weather conditions and their changes not only affect people's health, but also have obvious effects on people's psychology and emotions. Favorable weather conditions can make people feel high and comfortable, improve their quality of life and work efficiency; Adverse weather conditions make people depressed, depressed, lazy, weak, and even lead to mental illness and abnormal behavior. Research shows that high temperature, high humidity, rainy weather and some abnormal weather events are not conducive to people's mental health.

According to a data of the World Health Organization, the "El Nino phenomenon" of 1982- 1983 caused about 654.38+million people to suffer from depression, the incidence of mental illness increased by 8%, and traffic accidents increased by at least 5,000 times. The reason is that El Nino, an abnormal meteorological change, has caused global climate anomalies and weather disasters, which has exceeded the psychological endurance of some people, leading to fidgeting, mental retardation and other diseases, and people with weak will may even cry hysterically. Generally speaking, the low temperature environment is conducive to the formation of a good mental state, while when the temperature is high or rising, people's mental state is prone to fluctuations and abnormalities. Psychologists have found that when the temperature is high or warm current invades, mental patients will get up and wander, can't sleep, yell, swear and obviously throw things, and normal people will also have different emotional changes. Because high temperature is not conducive to people's mental health, the crime rate in high temperature environment is relatively high. 1996 On the eve of the Olympic Games, the American police appointed experts to do a detailed study, and found that the total number of crimes in Atlanta increased with the temperature rising every day. The hottest June and July have the highest crime rate, but the Olympic Games are held during this period. In order to alleviate people's fears, the head of the Olympic Organizing Committee lied that the summer temperature in Atlanta did not exceed 30℃.

In fact, the working people in ancient China also found the connection between weather and mental health. The ancients said "dizzy and depressing", which means that in the rainy season, people's spirit is lazy and their mood is not carefree. Why is this? Through in-depth research, Chinese medical meteorologists found that rainy weather affects people's mental health, mainly 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 is relatively reduced, and people's nerve cells become "lazy" and less "active", and people will become listless.