The psychologicaal effects of living underground could potentially undo the many benefits it brings. Living on Mars is going to be tough. Colonists will need all the mental health they can find as they already struggle with lack of open spaces, breathing fresh air, sunlight to sustain biological processes, and bone muscle and nervous health issues from low gravity.
But even if living underground proves prohibitive, anything that isn't a residence might still be buried, with colonists going home after work to their above-ground abodes.
You already have people living inside massive building not going out side with out Ill effect. It will have far more to do with if you want to be there or not, just like those places.
Not really. Too many people living like that in several massive buildings in some Asian cities and doing just fine. When you have depression, it has other causes, those causes you to retreat from doing things, "Staying in" is an effect, not a cause. It is the pulling away and cutting yourself off, that does that damage. The way people tend to do that is to find a place that they don't have to leave. I have had personal in depth experience with this. It isn't getting outside that so much help. It is going to where others people are, and connecting with them.
The psychologicaal effects of living underground could potentially undo the many benefits it brings. Living on Mars is going to be tough. Colonists will need all the mental health they can find as they already struggle with lack of open spaces, breathing fresh air, sunlight to sustain biological processes, and bone muscle and nervous health issues from low gravity.
But even if living underground proves prohibitive, anything that isn't a residence might still be buried, with colonists going home after work to their above-ground abodes.
You already have people living inside massive building not going out side with out Ill effect. It will have far more to do with if you want to be there or not, just like those places.
Willing or not, the people who do this on earth suffer from depression and other health complications.
Not really. Too many people living like that in several massive buildings in some Asian cities and doing just fine. When you have depression, it has other causes, those causes you to retreat from doing things, "Staying in" is an effect, not a cause. It is the pulling away and cutting yourself off, that does that damage. The way people tend to do that is to find a place that they don't have to leave. I have had personal in depth experience with this. It isn't getting outside that so much help. It is going to where others people are, and connecting with them.