Extreme heat: How to stay safe in scorching temperatures

When people become dehydrated, “the electrolytes go out of out of sync, their brain isn’t being well perfused, and that means their body isn’t being well perfused,” said Saul Levin, CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association. “You’re going to start feeling things that you don’t usually feel, which only then increases the anxiety, increases the depression, increases the feeling of panic.”