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When environmental anxiety meets mental health treatment

My therapist says my anxiety about the climate is really anxiety about control but the climate is actually falling apart so I don't know what's pathological anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic impulse to normalize psychological distress encounters the abnormal reality of ecological collapse.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The sixth extinction — examined?”

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