ost normal, but their lives are still a mess, their city is still in ruins, and there seems no end to the chaos.

An estimated 25% to 30% of hurricane survivors in hard-hit cities such as New Orleans suffer clinically significant mental health problems, and another 10% to 20% are need off psychological help, though they aren’t still aren't classified as clinically ill. Nonprofit organizations report an alarming increase in desperate callers with suicidal tendencies, or severely depressed callers. The calls to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline are up an alarming 60% since Katrina.

And if worst seems past the people are becoming vary and apprehensive off the approaching hurricane season, while they are yet to recover even partly from Katrina, the streets still a grim remainder of the her fury & force, some of them still waiting for the Red Cross van’s for food and basic ends.

Due to the vast increase in the number off patients, Professional help is hard to find, there’s scarcity of beds and professionals for the vast majority, so they have to be kept and monitored in Emergency rooms till they have vacancies in psychiatry wards. Even patients who don't need to be admitted to the hospital face long waits, as psychiatrists have their appointments full for four to six months out.

According to Anthony Speier, a psychologist who directs the state's mental health programs for disaster victims, its just as if the storms passed, as the people are yet to have a break to regroup, to rebuild….

To help the residents with the skill off dealing with this, the state has directed its share of federal grants to a program it calls Louisiana Spirit. In New Orleans region, Outreach workers trudge door-to-door offering free counseling, distributing self-help guides and giving plenty of pep talks.

-Face beaded with sweat, Cornelius Bentley Sr, has a confession: He's afraid. He trusts God wouldn't send another hurric
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