Posted on 08/28/2023 4:09:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The immensity and destruction of the 2018 wildfires in Sonoma County, California left a visceral impression on Mark Freed. He was 54 and had recently moved to the area with his then-wife to escape the crowded city of San Francisco; he’d never lived through a wildfire season before. The walls of flame “make you feel like an ant,” he said. “You don’t feel human, you’re just a thing to burn.”
For the next few years, as Freed saw fire after fire, he felt a growing sense of helplessness and foreboding. He would wake up and immediately feel the heaviness set in, filling the quiet. In his panic, he researched places that seemed the most protected from climate change, where fire and extreme heat wouldn’t touch him again for at least some years. But despite continually preparing for the worst to the best of his abilities—moving somewhere he thought would be safer, stocking up supplies, reinforcing his house—he still couldn’t shake the feeling that disaster is inevitable.
“It’s like there’s no control over what’s going to happen to us,” he told me. In trying to name his emotions, Freed said what he was experiencing wasn’t quite anxiety—it was deeper and heavier than that. That looming feeling, he said, was dread.
Mark Freed began talking to a therapist about his dread in 2020. They validated his emotions and helped Freed confront the real consequences of wildfires he experienced, as well as how he imagines fires worsening in the future. He tried forest bathing. And while he’s paused therapy, Freed says his unease is now manageable.
I asked him if his dread still bothered him.
“It’s less uneasy,” he told me. “It’s not gone, gone. Maybe it will [go away]—maybe one day, when we have a better world.”
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“”with his then-wife””
It would appear that perhaps his wife was driven crazy by his behavior as she appears as the “then” wife....Why stick around for more craziness?
And what in the world is “forest bathing?”
It really is dread not anxiety. But a better description would be hysteria.
if we submit to total control
there will never ever be a wildfire again
Exactly, it’s just a Trojan horse for socialism.
My thoughts exactly.
Stop Calling It “Climate Anxiety.” It’s Climate Diversion
Democrats always have masks for agendas.
We moved to a beachfront house and the waves kept coming at us, wave after wave after wave. It was only a matter of time until the ocean was going to swallow us up.
Then we moved to the mountains by a ski slope. The snow just kept falling and falling. It piled up and up. It was only a matter of time until we were buried in the frozen mass.
Maybe we should move back to the city and get used to using the poop app and SpotCrime app and paying ridiculous taxes for no services.
EC
The biggest danger to the human race of Anthropogenic(man-made) Global Warming (Climate Change on cold days... aka: AGW/CC) is the WokeLeftazi “solutions” to “solve” it. It will literally destroy the heath and prosperity and push towards poverty the people of the west and crush any attempt for those in the rest of the world to escape poverty. Probable mass famine and death for those of us under our new Global Feudal lords!
Those who demand to impose these draconian “fixes” to “save” the earth have made it clear they have NO intentions of joining in the required sacrifices… only we “peasants” must do that. Our new feudal lords will not park their huge yachts, private jets (that cause more CO2 in one hour than your SUV in a year) or move from their oceanfront mansions even under the threat of sea surface rise that will (allegedly) soon flood their multi-million dollar estates. The whole AGW/CC deal is satanic!!!
The sooner man kind realizes he can not control the weather the better chance of preventing minor changes on a small scale man kind often gives itself to much credit of events that take place.
Real causes
Thousands of volcanos (most under water)
Sun cycles
To many people requiring food shelter..........
on an on an on and on...................................
So, then: This article is a metaphor regarding leftist mental disorder? If not, it’s a marvelous piece of AI propaganda by DS to promote the looming declaration of ‘climate emergency’.
“Forest bathing”??? wtf
In short, the article is an IQ test: Your score is ZERO if you feel an emotional twang.
smh
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