Chernobyl Vaesen Hope Stat

I am looking into using this system for an educational RPG meant to be a metaphor for the trauma of Chernobyl for a class.

I have yet to run Vaesen so take this with a grain of salt. But I was hoping to have something similar to The One Rings Hope/CoC Sanity in which players who push on, get exposed to radiation, feel fear etc slowly lose Hope in a mechanical sense until they give up/can't go on. This would serve to assist in RPing of a character pushing themselves and ultimately lead to certain characters giving up/being unable to go on.

Does the current system handle this concept well or would I need to tweak some stuff?