{"id":73816,"date":"2025-09-02T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/02\/pakistan-floods-trauma-natural-disasters-mental-health-survivors-ptsd"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:00:32","slug":"fear-haunts-us-pakistans-floods-leave-mental-scars-long-after-waters-recede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73816","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fear haunts us\u2019: Pakistan\u2019s floods leave mental scars long after waters recede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shock, panic, guilt and grief grip survivors as mental health experts warn of chronic trauma from repeated exposure to natural disasters<\/p>\n<p>For a 10-year-old, the loss is proving hard to grasp. \u201cIt has been four days since I last saw my home,\u201d says Ahsan. He has not yet understood that the floods completely swept away his house in Dogoro Basha village in Shigar, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>His confusion is part of the devastating aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/aug\/22\/weather-tracker-monsoon-rains-deadly-floods-pakistan-india\">long months of rain and floods<\/a> that have devastated thousands of families in the country\u2019s northern provinces and left more than 860 people dead so far.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/02\/pakistan-floods-trauma-natural-disasters-mental-health-survivors-ptsd\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shock, panic, guilt and grief grip survivors as mental health experts warn of chronic trauma from repeated exposure to natural disastersFor a 10-year-old, the loss is proving hard to grasp. \u201cIt has been four days since I last saw my home,\u201d says Ahsan. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,455,313,59,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816\/revisions\/73817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}