Several Gulf Coast people still think the strike of Hurricane Katrina almost two years later.

Mental illness is twice more than the pre-storm levels, increasing numbers of suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and there is a rush in adults who say they’re thoughts of suicide.

A government investigation released to USA TODAY shows no growth in mental health from a year before.Regarding 14% have symptoms of rigorous mental illness. An extra 20% have soft to restrained mental illness, says Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School, who led the study.