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This tip sheet describes how people with serious mental illness may experience and respond to disasters. It identifies ways in which people with serious mental illness are more vulnerable than others in disasters and problems they may face. It also offers tips for disaster planners and responders for helping people with serious mental illness and their families with disaster planning and in the aftermath of a disaster.
Authoring Agency
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)