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Why pathologizing climate anxiety feels invalidating

My therapist says I have eco-anxiety but that label makes me feel like my fear about climate change is pathological when it seems like the rational response to our situation

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mental health frameworks can inadvertently locate the problem in individual psychology rather than acknowledging reasonable responses to collective threat.

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