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Hello, my name is Laila and today I'm going to tell you my story about my psychological problems that I've been through for a long time.

I've been suffering from stress, anxiety, depression, and I’m always nervous, but I didn't know what caused these problems that are happening to me and the anxiety that I've been through all the time.

But recently I discovered that the reason behind these problems is the climate change, as you call it nowadays.

It took me very long time to know the reason.

I work as a teacher in one of the Jordanian governorates.

All of the time I've been suffering from stress, anxiety, it affected me and my work.

When I go to the school to teach my student, I find myself very Anxious, unable to communicate with the students, and always nervous at them.

Sometimes the individual go through psychological stressors during the year, in work, at home.

But during certain periods, I get more nervous and anxious in a way that I can't control myself.

Because I don’t know the reason why I’m so anxious.

The way I dealt with students showed how anxious I’m.

Always suffering from headache.

Anxiety, fear, stress, tiredness

I feel like I’m struggling to do my work.

My colleagues and my supervisor started to notice that.

I noticed that the higher the temperature gets the….

Frankly, I don’t like summer, sun. I don’t like spend too much time in the sun.

The heat waves are increasing in frequency in Jordan, in a way that we didn’t witness before.

I don’t like hot weather, summer, and sun.

But I couldn't imagine that the temperature would be the cause of my anxiety.

During the summer we suffer from extreme heat waves, and it was affecting our work at school all the time, and we are suffering from anxiety because of the heat waves.

I feel like, I’m unable to breathe, we don’t have ventilation systems, or cooling system.

I’m used to finish my work and go to home during the peak sun hours, and once I get home, I find myself very exhausted.

Fatigue, very exhausted, have a headache, and anxiety.

And also it affected my home, my kids because I’m unable to communicate with them.

I just want to rest, I just want to feel relieved, away from the heat wave, and the sun.

Even if we wanted to go out and entertain ourselves, we can’t because of the heat wave.

To the extent we can’t even go out during night because of the heat wave we are unable to go out to entertain the kids, to do any activity, this increased my depression.

I wasn’t aware that this is the reason, I was suffering from all of these feelings all of the time, I’m stressed, anxious, nervous, depressed, have no energy to do any activity, unable to help my kids, and it affected my work. My colleagues started to get annoyed with me because of my anxiety and that affected me badly.

At home, also my family started to be annoyed with me   saw me as a pessimist spreading negative energy

Because I’m always anxious.

Till I coincidentally found a Facebook group for group therapy for group therapy, and they meet for psychological support. I decided to go and talk with them.

After many long session with the psychologists, she knew, the psychologist, found a correlation. These feeling getting more intense during summer than winter and and linked these feeling to the weather, the heat waves.

And those feelings I haven’t felt them in prior years, because in the prior years the summer used to be 2 to 3 months but currently in Jordan the summer is getting longer.

Right now we are in Nov, and it’s very hot, the winter didn’t start yet, and we didn’t witness that in Jordan the prior years.

Frankly, after knowing the reason, I was relieved, and I knew how to deal with my psychological state, in the beginning I was shocked, I didn’t believe that is the reason

But when I linked the dots, and I don’t like the hot weather, and the sun, they make me uncomfortable, and tired.

But I didn’t imagine that to reach this state of suffering, and my family and friends get upset with me. and because of that my psychological state got worse But today I’m feeling better because the psychologist is teaching me how to deal with my anxiety, stress.

Thanks to Allah, my relation with the people around me is getting better.

And I knew how to deal with my state, and my anxiety.

Frankly, if I told my story to anyone, probably he/she won’t believe me because we don’t have enough awareness.

Is that possible! I’m suffering from psychological problems because of the climate change! Because of a certain season!

I believe that we need to make the people aware of these problems that they may have psychological problems because of the climate.

The fact that our country is becoming one on the hot country, I mean we are suffering from extreme heat waves, the summer’s length is  getting longer, we didn’t used to that in the prior years.

I believe that we should have something to cool the air, to reduce the heat.

Because in some of the Jordanian southern governorates, the temperature is very high, higher that the other governorates.

The people should have something to help them with dealing with heatwaves, specially the people who work in the open air.

We should find a solution for this problem.

Today I wanted to share with you my story to educate the people about this problem and the reason behind it.