😨Rotting food, traffic congestion, and kids unable to do homework. Load shedding has a huge psychological effect on citizens, which causes anxiety, depression and can be fatal. Eskom loadshedding healthnews mentalhealth TheCitizenNews
“It’s very important to actually acknowledge that load shedding has more than just a physical impact. We know that medically it’s a serious problem. I have an aunt who’s on oxygen, so when her power goes out, it literally becomes a matter of life and death if it’s out for too long.”
“We are very much being controlled by a system that we don’t entirely trust and that has become a very big issue with people as well. In addition we have that sense of loneliness and can we trust where we are, and the fear of ‘I’m going to wake up in the dark and there’s nothing I can do about it’,” Shamos said.
“We can almost learn to give up control of light and dark, use each other, chat about what you are feeling. What are your coping skills, what are your stresses right now, because we do hide a lot of what we are really feeling and cover it with jokes and humour and we get stuck on our own and how we are going to cope with it. “
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