Katrina's Emotional Damage Lingers

Katrina's Emotional Damage Lingers: "Katrina's Emotional Damage Lingers
Mental Health Experts Say Impact Is Far Beyond What They've Ever Faced

By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 7, 2005; Page A03

NEW ORLEANS -- 'I've been thinking the last couple days the best thing to do is die.'

The man, speaking on a dull monotone, was slumped in a chair inside the steamy convention center here, waiting to see a doctor. He didn't want to come to the makeshift hospital, but a friend insisted."