Climate anxiety: ‘The new reality’

Re: “Historic climate devastation demands historic action” [Aug. 18, Opinion]:

Alex Fryer’s confession — “Virtually each night time, I get up round 3 a.m. with the identical gripping concern” — is a model of what I now so typically hear from my psychotherapy sufferers. “The world as we all know it’s quickly coming to an finish” is the brand new actuality for individuals who already wrestle with anxiousness and despair.

Fryer means that we might imagine he wants remedy to cope with his early morning anxiousness. Fairly the opposite. In my psychotherapy observe of 30-plus years, I’ve not seen such a typical theme of existential anxiousness created not by particular person psychodynamics however by profound concern in regards to the state of the Earth.

Local weather change organizations like Residents Local weather Foyer and plenty of others supply a car for motion, and motion is a car for empowerment.

Jeri Schweigler, Mercer lsland