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When climate anxiety becomes a mental health diagnosis

My anxiety about climate change is so constant now that my doctor wants to prescribe medication but medicating grief about a dying planet feels like spiritual bypassing.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Pathologizing appropriate responses to environmental crisis medicalizes what may be rational distress.

Ideas that help explain it
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