Posted on 01/19/2008 8:07:55 AM PST by ElkGroveDan
NORTH CAROLINA -- Former Vice President Al Gore isn’t the only one concerned about the environment, as more and more people are starting to become aware of global warming and experiencing ‘eco-anxiety.’
"People are afraid of the future, they're afraid of what's going to happen,” said licensed therapist Melissa Pickett, saying of one patient, "She brought up during the course of our session that she had just read an article about the polar bears and the loss of habitat and she started crying … she said 'I just don't understand this.'"
Pickett said fears about the environment are sending some people into a panic. The mental health disorder has grown enough to gain the ‘eco-anxiety’ name.
"It's causing them to feel anxiety, it's causing them to feel depression, it's causing them to have insomnia,” said general practitioner Cynthia Knudsen of patients.
Debra Kincaid is so gripped by the environment and the future of the planet, she can’t even force herself to throw away a broken coffee maker. She has chosen to have it repaired instead.
"It can almost make you want to bury your head in the sand with a sense of hopelessness,” she said. “If everybody tosses their coffee maker into the landfill then pretty soon that's all we have."
Pickett said patients think they have to make big changes in their life, when the little things might be what matters most. Things like recycling, turning off lights, unplugging electrical items and carpooling can go a long way to ease the problem.
Children can also suffer from anxiety over the planet. Experts suggest getting them involved in a recycling program or planting a garden.
Now if these ninnies would quit scaring naive, gullible people for political gain, there wouldn't be so much anxiety. Forget the gardens, they need to plant their heads in some serious science books. Reality has a way of curing anxiety.
The sissyfication of America is what bothers me.
Where are all the Charlie Wilson's?
Oh, the hugh manitee. It's hard to even contemplate land fills filled with coffee pots. I think I'm getting the vapors.
The mental health disorder ...
I have often thought the MSM has, forever, been envious what he pulled off in that broadcast and have been trying to do it themselves (without getting caught) ever since.
When I start worrying about man-made global warming, I’ve found that smoking a cigarette helps calm me down.
“It can almost make you want to bury your head in the sand with a sense of hopelessness,” she said. “If everybody tosses their coffee maker into the landfill then pretty soon that’s all we have.”
Now, THAT is funny!
A lot of schools are instilling what I've called eco-guilt for years, which leads to this eco-anxiety. Recycling isn't going to make a dent in it. The way to deal with it is to speak to the schools, straighten out the facts, i.e. the bald eagle is off the endangered list, and voice your displeasure with the manipulative unfairness of making children feel responsible for the state of the world. I had some success with this. And there's always homeschooling.
I guess a “barf alert” would have been redundant.
That’s “Children can also suffer anxiety” in the post above.
Obviously the government should mandate that treatment for “eco-anxiety” be included in all health-care programs. Oh, and there should be plenty of “grant money” made available to “researchers” so that this serious problem can be “studied”.
The disgusting, alarmist, eco-socialist scumbags and their enablers (teachers, in this case) have taken to scaring kids with their propaganda!
I am a doctorate therapist and this little bit of ‘news’ is no doubt introduced by the therapist(s) not the patient(s).
Most patients bring personal familial or work/love relationships to their sessions - the immediate pressures of life which cause anxiety - not some pie in the sky scary monster in the closet. If that were so, clients would be discussing the more immediate anticipated danger of being in a car accident during the week to be, or coming down with some fatal disease. These are personal - the primary issues of a neurotic mind.
These quoted ‘therapists’ need to do some heavy lifting on their own couches. They have lost touch with the credo - the client is the master of the fifty-minute hour.
We have been stuck with these type of people forever. Orson Wells was mentioned, look at the the internment camps during WWII, etc, etc. We’ll get past it. Some will get rich from it, some will loose all they have and then we will go on until someone comes up with another sky is falling scheme.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
1920
spot on....
With BDS about to expire in ‘09, the various cults of the Communist world had to come up with something big, and fast. Peak oil had been debunked, so Algore (even sounds like a disease) was crowned Cult Priest to take the message to the masses....thank God for those masses. Now the NEA can do its thing to provide the fodder those mushkins need.
How about telling them to grow a set and quit whining. Jeez.
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