Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts

[mentalfloss]

Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts

As a provincial coroner and past palliative care physician, Dr. David Ouchterlony has seen suffering and death up close, experiences that have occasionally led to brief moments of sadness. But Ouchterlony describes such emotions as “trivial” compared to the dread he feels when thoughts about climate change linger, as they often do. He worries almost obsessively about a future he won’t see. How will younger generations be affected? Why are we failing to act on the threat?

“I was completely blind to it, and then five years ago it just hit me,” Ouchterlony, 74, said. “I went through this stage of losing sleep, thinking about my grandchild, wondering what I could do.”

He described the feeling as an “absence of hope” characterized by despair and, at times, exhausting guilt. Some researchers have called it a “pre-traumatic” stress disorder that, in some, is feeding anxiety and depressive thoughts.

Ouchterlony isn’t alone. Signs of mental distress related to climate change have appeared in vulnerable populations, from drought-stricken prairie farmers to isolated aboriginal communities and the scientists who crunch climate data.

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news...aking-havoc-on-our-mental-health-experts.html

 

[CDNBear]

Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts

You're a shining example.

 

[Angstrom]

I used to feel the same way about it.

Then I realized what a waste of my life it would be to worrie about something that's going to happen regardless of what anyone try's doing.

 

[mentalfloss]

You're a shining example.

That's not a very nice thing to say.

 

[DaSleeper]

Flossy is to global warming what Selfsame is to the quran....:lol:

Most people don't read their post.....just the title and roll their eyes

 

[CDNBear]

That's not a very nice thing to say.

Just being factual. I can understand how it hurts you though. The truth does that sometimes.

Flossy is to global warming what Selfsame is to the quran....

Bingo.

 

[mentalfloss]

You guys are just upset that climate change is real.

If you don't want the topic to garner attention, then don't post.

 

[CDNBear]

You guys are just upset that climate change is real.

You should stop making things up.

If you don't want the topic to garner attention, then don't post.

What fun would it be to not point out your cult like faith, disregard for anyone else but yourself, and hypocrisy?

 

[mentalfloss]

Hey, as long as you enjoy taking up all of your time with that sort of thing lol

 

[CDNBear]

Hey, as long as you enjoy taking up all of your time with that sort of thing lol

It takes no time at all.

I can understand how you find this internet thing difficult and troublesome though.

Hell, even the curmudgeons find it fast and easy.

 

[mentalfloss]

You spend a significant portion of your day replying to my posts.

It's the love.

 

[Durry]

As I have stated here before;

We are currently in an inter-glacial phase of an ice age that began about 37 million years ago. For most of the earth's history, it has been warmer and wetter than it is now. The principal engine affecting climate is the sun, not carbon dioxide. Other geological forces (rarely included in the computer models that catastrophists are so fond of quoting) include the changing shape of continents and of the sea floor, tectonic plate movement, the opening and closing of sea ways, changes in the Earth’s orbit, supernova eruptions, comet dust, impacts by comets and asteroids, volcanic activity, bacteria, soil formation, sedimentation, ocean currents and the chemistry of air, just to name a few. You could add in the immense, but unquantified, role of methane-producing insects like termites. Attributing climate change to carbon dioxide alone ignores all these planetary influences.

And another one;

 

[Nick Danger]

It's all part of a cycle where, every few million years, Mother Nature covers the planet with a new layer of SUVs.

 

[CDNBear]

You spend a significant portion of your day replying to my posts.

It's the love.

I haven't been here in three or four days. I spend a significant portion of my life, living, unlike your steady presence here. Perhaps you need to leave your brothers basement for some fresh air.

I come here and mock your idiocy for fun. It's all your worth,.

 

[Jinentonix]

You guys are just upset that climate change is real.

Of course it's real. It's just that people like you actually believe something can be done to prevent a natural event from occurring if you throw enough of someone else's money at it.
People getting all worked up over a receding ice sheet in Greenland that wasn't there 1100 years ago. People freaking out over disappearing glaciers in part of the Himalayas while ignoring the growing glaciers in another region of the mountain chain. One of my favourite stunts was when Greeenpeace, or one of those groups, transported several Alaskan king crab to the southern ocean, and then hauled them up in a crab pot pretending like the crabs had migrated because the Arctic waters were too warm.


EVERY AGW prediction has utterly failed to materialize.

 

[gerryh]

You guys are just upset that climate change is real.

If you don't want the topic to garner attention, then don't post.

Of course it's "real" The climate on this planet has never been static. What is in question is whether or not AGW is "real" and if it is how much of an actual impact it has. Something that has not been proven, imo, up to this point.

Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts

As a provincial coroner and past palliative care physician, Dr. David Ouchterlony has seen suffering and death up close, experiences that have occasionally led to brief moments of sadness. But Ouchterlony describes such emotions as “trivial” compared to the dread he feels when thoughts about climate change linger, as they often do. He worries almost obsessively about a future he won’t see. How will younger generations be affected? Why are we failing to act on the threat?

“I was completely blind to it, and then five years ago it just hit me,” Ouchterlony, 74, said. “I went through this stage of losing sleep, thinking about my grandchild, wondering what I could do.”

He described the feeling as an “absence of hope” characterized by despair and, at times, exhausting guilt. Some researchers have called it a “pre-traumatic” stress disorder that, in some, is feeding anxiety and depressive thoughts.

Ouchterlony isn’t alone. Signs of mental distress related to climate change have appeared in vulnerable populations, from drought-stricken prairie farmers to isolated aboriginal communities and the scientists who crunch climate data.

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news...aking-havoc-on-our-mental-health-experts.html

This is no surprise, it shows that the fear mongers are doing their job. The AGW crowd must be so proud.

 

[petros]

. Signs of mental distress related to climate change have appeared in vulnerable populations, from drought-stricken prairie farmers

What drought? There hasn't been drought since the 80s for f-ck sakes.

 

[CDNBear]

Of course it's real.

Of course it's "real"

You guys do realize he made that up because he got called out again, right?

 

[gerryh]

What drought? There hasn't been drought since the 80s for f-ck sakes.

I am REALLY starting to doubt the honesty of your claims to being a "farmer".

 

[lone wolf]

Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts....

Head games are designed to screw with your mind. Makes it easier to pick your pocket....