Whatever you call it, this is undeniably a real condition. climatedespair
A Greenpeace protester at the 2009 UN climate change meeting dressed as a Horseman of the Apocalypse. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Katerina Georgiou, a London therapist, told me in an email that climate despair is"usually connected to clients who present already with [a] diagnosis of anxiety ." Georgiou explained that these patients are suffering"a lot," but in her assessment,"it's less to do with the topic itself and more to do with the pattern of how anxiety works. Climate change just happens to be where the fixation is, but it's the fixation that is the symptom.
Rohrer was relieved to eventually find someone like this."She heard me out, let me rant for over two hours on our first intake appointment, and then basically said we needed to put things like my specific despair about the climate on the back burner and wrangle in my tendency to catastrophize everything... At first I was really annoyed," Roher told me."But once she explained why, and we made a plan which included coming back to it I felt understood, which helped.
"When there's a crisis going on in our lives—like a job loss, or losing someone, or a divorce, or upheaval, or now increasingly displacement from natural disasters and flooding and fire—we need to be able to process our experience, usually by talking with people," Lertzmen said."Then we can be more capable of actually moving forward. This context is no different."
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