During my most recent depressive episode, the looming threat of worsening climate change played a significant part in my suicidal spiral.
I would fixate on the downstream effects that climate change has caused and will continue to cause, especially the effects on health (we are still in the midst of a pandemic, after all).
There’s even a word specifically used to describe climate change-induced distress: solastalgia, or the pain or devastation felt from losing one’s sense of place or home due to change over time that’s caused by something out of their control, such as ecological destruction.
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