FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Natural disasters can be hard on a person's mental health, especially if they've lived through one.

"Unfortunately, a lot of people take too much responsibility and believe that if they're having some sort of unusual physiological reaction or unusual thoughts or fear, they think something's wrong with them," said Coraline Robinson, a Licensed Family Marriage therapist and a director at Balance Treatment Center.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that people forced to leave their homes because of a natural disaster experienced higher levels of depression or anxiety, with symptoms lasting months to even years after the disaster.

"I would say that's one of the most common challenges with anxiety disorders is having tolerance for the u

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