Doctors have long treated the mental health of people who have suffered through the violence of extreme-weather events. But treating people anticipating this imminent suffering is relatively uncharted territory. bridgetgillard reports
Art: Susanna Hayward/**Please credit as Collage by Susanna Hayward Seven years ago, when I started talking incessantly about the climate crisis, my parents thought I was having a mental breakdown. It was 2014, and the drought in California that summer was particularly bad — the driest year in nearly a century before that record was surpassed this past summer. My dread stretched beyond what I saw in my suburban Los Angeles surroundings, in the crunchy grass and smoggy skies.
It’s nothing new for doctors to treat the mental health of people who have suffered through the violence of extreme-weather events; their symptoms are often diagnosed as those of PTSD. But treating the mental health of people anticipating this imminent suffering is relatively uncharted territory. Therapists say increasing numbers of their patients are unable to stop reading the news or picturing their loved ones dying.
But even those pushing for more awareness around the climate crisis and mental health are sober about the practical limits of tackling the issue in a therapy setting. “Therapy has long been about cultivating an individualist frame. It’s all about you and your life and your story,” says Salamon. “You’ve got to fix yourself.
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