http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2001-02-26/news/0102260223_1_newton-falls-paper-mill-falls-hotel

This article addresses an issue related to occupational-related illness concerning mental health.  While this article focuses on the Newton Falls Paper Mill, it also mentions the Lyons Falls Pulp and Paper mill located in Lewis County.  I believe that this article embodies the aura of ghost towns left behind by fallen paper mills and hints at the aftermath that unemployed mill workers are forced to face.  As far as the Lyons Falls Pulp and Paper mill is concerned, 192 workers lost their jobs.  This not only represents 192 workers, but, 192 families.  In a small Lewis County community, 192 families make up a significant portion of the community.  While the workers were forced to face unemployment that they neither anticipated, deserved, nor had any control over, their families also felt the burden.  Without other feasible employment opportunities in the community, or county for that matter, these families were forced to pick up and leave.  Parents and kids were forced to leave the familiarity of their homes, school, family and friends to find employment elsewhere- likely in other states- leaving behind ghosts of the booming town that once was.  Such a drastic change is very likely to result in mental illness in not only the workers and their families, but also in the community members remaining behind.  Even those not involved with the paper mill itself were forced to live in its empty wake.  Depression is the main condition that comes to mind in this circumstance.