Comments on: Mental Strain Weighing On Katrina's Kids

Report Obtained By CBS News Shows 10,000 Children Displaced By Katrina Are Despressed

[smb221]

Of course they're depressed!

[billzor]

Ralsand, the children in question, and their families, don't have the means to rebuild on their own, otherwise they would do it. I don't know for sure, but judging from the amount of land destroyed, they probably don't have a location to rebuild on, either. You're right, it was a well known fact that if a major hurricane hit New Orleans the city would be devestated as it lies below sea level. But that doesn't solve the current situation, and it isn't the resident's fault. And, yes, what about the rest of the people who were displaced along the Gulf Coast? Where is the help for all of these Americans? Living in, "Renaissance Village(s)?" Why have people had o fight for insurance claims? Why is there a mother of four keeping her family warm with a hairdryer, a year and a half after the storm? No wonder people are depressed. I'm depressed just thinking about it.

[floridagirly]

What about the Mississippi folks who were displaced and are still suffering the impact of Katrina? While I agree that New Orleans was devastated by Katrina and need assistance still, what about the residents and children of Biloxi and Gulfport? As it stands, only 15% of displaced residents in Biloxi have been brought back...what about the other 85%? Not only has New Orleans been treated like yesterday's news, but Biloxi/Gulfport seems to have been completely forgotten?

[anopinion1]

well no %@#& they are depessed. did this really take a psychologist to figure out. Who isnt gonna be a little depressed when they lose their home and probably dont get to see any of their friends from school for a long time???
please oh god dont go and put young kids on antidepressants you idiotic so called doctors.

everyone has do deal with a loss of some sort at one point or another, and should deal with it without some quack pumping them full of pills

[whatithink-2009]

Our society throws away so many of our children, our brightest hopes, and then we wonder why they grow up to become delinquents. So many kids are being failed by so many different avenues. We have really lost sight of what truly is important.

[whatithink-2009]

Ralsand,

Are you blaming kids for not having flood insurance? I really don't get your rambling.

[oleander8]

To: ralsand at 05:13 AM : Feb 02, 2007

Good for you, Buddy! But we're talking about children here and I doubt that these good folks had a house to rebuild.

[ralsand]

Enough already, I have rebuilt my home twice after Fl. hurricanes. No $2000.00 debt cards to go shopping at the Galleria in Houston. Wonder why?
New Orleans has been told that the levys will fail, for 40 years. It was just when. Maybe a spring flood?
9th Ward, no flood insurance, but, plenty of Crack, Guns, and Gang Members.
After you get off of your knees from giving thanks for being alive, you pick up the first board and keep going untill you have it cleaned up. Help yourselves, I won't be there.....

[mgpm-2009]

When I saw the images of people dazed and confused, then angry, outside of that stadium in NO during the days after Katrina, I thought, people are going to be angry for generations over this. And well they should be. This has been the biggest debacle in US history and, incredibly, this administration continues to look the other way, as if it is yesterday's news. If the problem is money, we should have telethon after telethon asking for money until we have enough. If the problem is manpower, we should ask for volunteers and call those people heros, and treat them as such and give them national recognition. We should pull together in a time of crisis. In short, we need a LEADER. Where the hairy heck is our LEADER? Off picking his nose somewhere, trying to figure out how he can kill/disfigure/maim more American soldiers overseas. SO..so...so...FRUSTRATING...

[xfredmenzies]

Yes, like the report a few months ago where hungry people were feeling the effects of "low food security", now we have 10,000 kids from displaced and homeless families who are feeling a little "depressed".

Because CBS news wouldn't ever want to say that someone in America was TRAUMATIZED.