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When Climate News Creates Paralyzing Anxiety

The news about climate change makes me so anxious I have started avoiding it completely but then I feel guilty about not staying informed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche struggles to process threats too large for individual action, leading to cycles of overwhelm and avoidance that serve neither inner peace nor outer engagement.

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