If you think that only your health gets worse due to air pollution then it is not so. Pollution, along with physical harm, makes you mentally ill. A recent study reviewed data from 16 countries, including India, in which it was found that people living in the midst of excessively polluted air increases the risk of depression and suicide.
Adults affect mental health
This study, published in the Journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is the first systematic study to prove that there is a connection between air pollution and mental health problems. Scientists at the University College London (UCL) of the UK analyzed data from nine studies that provided information about the impact of PM (Perticulate Matter) 2.5 pollution on adults' mental health.
Researchers found that as pollution levels increased, so did the number of suicides and people prone to depression. Particles present in bad air can reach the brain through both the bloodstream and nose and increase inflammation in the brain, damage to nerve cells and tension hormones.
Breathing air must be clean and pure
"We already know how harmful air pollution is to our health," says Isobel Brathwaite, lead author of the study. Due to this, the risk of many diseases ranging from heart to lame, stroke and dementia is also very high. But now we are also showing that air pollution causes great harm to our mental health as well. So how important it is to be clean and pure in the air we are breathing.
