Posted on 10/15/2018 7:59:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Disturbing research on how climate change is hurting our emotional well-being.
Climate change is a major stressor in contemporary life. There is not a single day that we don’t read about the hazards of climate change, learn about a horrible disaster plausible connected with climate change. For those of us who accept the science, we often feel outrage at people - especially those in power - who not only refute climate change, but roll-back efforts intended to address the hazards facing our planet and species. In addition to outrage, shame, sorrow, helplessness, fear, disgust, resilience eroding cynicism, and the like... nothing good for emotional wellness.
What kind of animal are we to continue down this path, faced with what we now know?
There's no question, that at least subjectively the day-in-day-out barrage of terrifying news causes massive amounts of anxiety, whether you are someone who numbs out, worries actively, and/or is trying to do something about climate change. This is truly the stuff of nightmares, as anyone afflicted with apocalyptic nightmares can tell you.
Ongoing research can start to look at these factors so we can understand what is happening when climate change impairs emotional well-being and identify areas of intervention to make us more resilient. If climate change continues to escalate as scientists predict, and the United Nations stridently warns, and we fail to heed these warnings, we open ourselves up to unfathomable, preventable horrors which will affect everyone. Understanding why people refute climate change will help to develop ways to educate, and persuade.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
Grant Hilary Brenner, MD, FAPA is a psychiatrist and an expert on mental health, relationships, and self-care and wellness who has been featured on CBS Radio, NPR, and more.
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
For starters, be a good FReeper and don’t read this article.
the other day I had a sugar filled carbonated and caffeinated beverage in a large Styrofoam cup, with a plastic lid and a straw.
Winter hit Texas early this year. That’s hurting my emotional well being.
We would have to live 10,000 times longer to see the Climate change
Climate Change is an economic weapon.
Only for the gullible.
Is it?
Is it really?
the other day I had a sugar filled carbonated and caffeinated beverage in a large Styrofoam cup, with a plastic lid and a straw.
extra points if you left your car idling while you bought it
It reads like a snowflakes’ manifesto.
I mean, geez you can’t make this stuff up!
And you wanna know why you can’t? Because you’re likely a FReeper, which means you got at least half a brain.
Truth: There IS “climate change”...Has been ever since there has been an “Earth”...
False: Man has created “climate change” or can do anything about it...
This is truly the stuff of nightmares, as anyone afflicted with apocalyptic nightmares can tell you.
Dude, you need help if you’re afflicted.
Now, I have nightmares but they are usually that
I’m back working for my former boss and they usually
end in apocalyptic collapse but they aren’t about
apocalyptic collapse.
So many fantasies to obsess over.
Yeah, that's exactly where I stopped reading...
“Grant Hilarity Brenner MD, FAPA”
The climate has always been changing since the beginning of time.
We are just along for the ride.
Only in leftist land!
Of course, they also believe in unicorns and men in dresses being women. Tells you all you need to know about their mental “health” issues.
Like toddlers throwing a temper tantrum because they don’t get their way.
Tough. Deal with it.
How to ignore climate change?....don’t watch TV.
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