July 9, 2010 There are many factors that health authorities be examined Louisiana when it will have the health effects of the recent deepwater horizon oil spill on people. Air quality and skin contamination are the obvious effects understood, but now the mental health of the residents on the Gulf Coast is always cause for concern.

A $ 10 million funding request has been brought to help for the State of Louisiana's "Louisiana spirit" outreach teams, a division of the Louisiana Department of health and hospitals - Office of mental health provide. The program was implemented after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 against the mental health consequences of the disaster.

Now as the State of Louisiana faces still a further disaster, officials fear that an increase of stress, fear, domestic violence, substance abuse, depression and suicide a result may be. Cases of Gulf inhabitants suffer mental health conditions already surfaced. One which more commonly known boat was captain as the suicide of William Kruse, an Alabama whose Charter boat business at risk by the oil spill.

The $10 million would come from BP, even though it is unclear whether the money from the Fund $20 billion for the settlements and compensation for victims of the oil slick would affect, or whether it would be part of the growing issues of cleanup efforts.

Doctors in the Louisiana spirit program are optimistic that BP is their need for honor and the means to protect of the citizens of Louisiana from the psychological effects that may be required to provide the spill.

Similar as in other traumatic events that lead to future mental health problems we can, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), can see more cases of mental afflictions 10 or 20 years on the way of current Gulf Coast residents. This may be an increase in medical malpractice cases these conditions cause, if doctors incorrectly diagnose and treat.

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