Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border Wapner Jessica
A groundbreaking investigation into the hidden mental health effects of border walls, revealing the harm they bring to all who live near themToday, there are at least seventy border walls: from the…
Specifikacia Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border Wapner Jessica
A groundbreaking investigation into the hidden mental health effects of border walls, revealing the harm they bring to all who live near themToday, there are at least seventy border walls: from the US-Mexico border to the seventeen thousand miles of barbed wire that wall off Bangladesh from India, as well as the five-layer fence between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Border walls protect us, the argument goes, because they keep danger out. But what if the walls themselves endanger everyone who lives near them--on both sides?In this thoroughly reported, eye-opening work, science journalist Jessica Wapner reveals the unforeseen mental health effects of security walls--including depression and anxiety, despondence, excitability, suicidal ideation, paranoia, and more. Doctors first noticed these conditions proliferating among people who lived along the Berlin Wall, and
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