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How global concerns become personal mental torture

I worry constantly about climate change and the future of the planet and I feel helpless and overwhelmed by thoughts I can't control.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Empathic awareness without skillful boundaries becomes a source of endless psychological suffering.

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