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Two World Problems Connected : Air Pollution and Mental Health

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If you were to take a quick look through a newspaper, you will find countless articles about mental health and the state of our world. Everyone knows that two of our main problematic topics of today are the stigma around mental health and the fact that our world is deteriorating. Well, what if I told you that, strangely enough, air pollution is causing increased mental health problems in children. Two huge topics unfortunately connected. A study of how children react when the pollutant particle PM2.5 spikes was recently released. This is the particle responsible for causing mental health problems in children. This particle can cause physical damage as well. For example, it can get into the lungs and even the bloodstream causing heart and respiratory problems. Physical problems from a pollutant doesn't sound strange, but mental health problems are not something researchers were expecting. Researchers have found that whenever this particle occurs in higher amounts than usual in t