Posted on 01/11/2020 8:29:44 AM PST by Libloather
Climate change is often framed as a scientific or technical issue. But for many, it’s an emotional one too.
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Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Seattle, maintains the website climateandmind.org, which provides advice on finding a clinician. It also contains detailed descriptions of scholars’ growing understanding of ecological grief, and references for books and articles about climate and mental health.
Ultimately, people need to create habits that allow them to recognize and process their grief, but not be suffocated by it, said Atkinson. That could mean getting outside, making art or reading literature.
Atkinson teaches a class on environmental grief in which her students develop an emotional survival kit to help them cope. After attracting coverage by the Seattle Times last year, the class was ridiculed by some as more coddling for millennial snowflakes.
But Atkinson said that confronting grief takes more courage than looking away, which is the prevailing societal response to climate change.
And buried underneath that grief is something hopeful.
“We only grieve what we love,” Cunsolo said. “If we didn’t love something, we wouldn’t be sad to lose it.”
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Get a life people!
Glad to see the mental health professions finally recognize that liberalism is a mental disorder.
>>> That could mean getting outside, making art or reading literature. <<<
I suspect most just smoke dope.
Between the Trump Derangement Syndrome and the global warming hysteria the left and their useful idiots have gone completely nuts.
So, if I understand Ashlee correctly, I must LOVE the climate, otherwise I won't be sad to lose the climate.
OK, Ashlee.
She's an EXPERT on Ecological Change and Mental Health. Just when I thought I'd seen all the most useless positions in the entire world, a new one pops up to take the lead. Universities lead the way in completely useless positions.
Where’s that great picture of Mom telling her teen daughter “We just get on with our lives.” Daughter says “That’s it?”. And Mom says “Yep, that’s it.”
Go kill yourselves,you morons!
No, no, jumping off a bridge is the only rational and ethical response. And it lightens the load on the planet! Jump! Jump for Mother Earth!
If you lived in Canada wouldn’t you be looking forward to globull warming? I know here in Upstate New York I am.
I mean how do they even get out of bed in the morning without needing to visit a shrink? Or dress themselves without taking a course in environmental grieving? Or make their way to a job without spending the day in a bathroom toilet stall crying their eyes out?
Is this what this country is really made up of anymore? A bunch of fragile, whining, hysterical losers who need so much emotional support that they can't function otherwise.
I get up everyday and it doesn't even cross my mind that the climate is not static but is changing like it always has. Their level of mass hysteria over something that most level-headed, intelligent humans know is a Marxist hoax, is astounding and breath-taking.
What would they do if something really happened in their lives that caused them grief? Slit their wrists?
We can only hope.
I’ve never met any fragile kook like this. Do these people really exist? Are there many of them among us? Everybody I know gets up, gets ready, heads off to work, comes home and has dinner, plays with the kids, plays golf, goes on vacation and generally enjoys life.
Who ARE these people? Are they one in a hundred? One in a thousand? One in a million? Maybe they just seem to be outsized because of these insane articles they write and because some whiny brat-child from Sweden gets them all humming one tune.
They obviously DO have some force because our cars are made with soy-insulated wires that squirrels love to eat and the landscape is dotted with monstrosity windmills and we used to endure a 55 mph speed limit on the interstates.
I’m a Millennial and I don’t know anyone like that either. Of course there’s a selection bias here. Namely I choose my friends carefully and snowflakes need not apply.
Bring on globull warming. It’s winter and my hands are freezing and my coffee doesn’t stay warm much less hot.
I’m 70 and this gives me a reason to live at least 11 more yrs so I can see the end of the world.
Selection bias at work here, too. I couldn’t stand to be around people like that.
I know a lot of people around the country. Our kids (late 20s to early 30s) have lots of friends and none of them are like that. So my personal sample set runs rather large and I honestly cannot think of a single person like that.
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