PSYCHOLOGY – When global warming creates an overwhelming fear, certain strategies can help regain your footing.
For some, eco-anxiety can extend to fears of climate collapse leading to wars for water and available resources, against the backdrop of the destruction of modern societies. For others, it is a deep, inconsolable mourning, in anticipation of the irremediable loss of the present world. “It is perfectly normal to worry about climate change and to take into account the information that reaches us to wonder about the future, recall the Dr Rachel Bocher, head of psychiatry at Nantes University Hospital. But anxiety is pathological when worry invades the brain and body, with obsessive and intrusive thoughts that cause excessive suffering.
Emergency services are well aware that spikes in heat, pollution, wildfires and floods cause an increase in patients presenting with extreme anxiety. “These are frequently predisposed people, who find it difficult to…
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