Guest essay by Eric Worrall
If someone is no longer able to function due to their “pre-traumatic” climate grief, a plethora of therapists are offering therapies ranging from “The Great Turning,” a societal transformation from an industrial, growth, and consumer-based society to a more equitable and sustainable one, to collapse-transcendence (fostering psycho-social-spiritual-cultural shifts to accept and live through collapse with some composure and stability).
Group Interventions for Climate Change Distress
December 11, 2020
Beth Mark, MD , Janet Lewis, MDFrom disasters and social disruptions to existential concerns, climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to patients but may also help psychiatry’s public health responses.
The climate crisis presents unique and complex challenges to the mental health and wellness of individuals and communities. The need for interventions at a global scale increasingly leads mental health providers to look toward large group interventions. This article outlines a number of the more popular group approaches. It informs psychiatrists about the climate distress groups that our patients may access and advances our understanding of these groups’ methods, which may help psychiatry’s own public health response.
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The Work That Reconnects (TWTR) is an approach developed by Joanna Macy, PhD, and is described as a “transformative learning process.”9 TWTR incorporates aspects of deep ecology, systems theory, eco-psychology, Buddhism, and activism. … Instead of turning away from the problem, group members reframe and honor their feelings, and then develop fresh perspectives intended to bring about “The Great Turning,” a societal transformation from an industrial, growth, and consumer-based society to a more equitable and sustainable one.
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The Deep Adaptation Forum was developed by Jem Bendell, PhD, after the publication of his paper “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy,”12 which went viral. Deep Adaptation (DA) positions itself outside of mainstream work on climate adaptation in that it assumes inevitable societal breakdown and collapse due to climate change and intentionally challenges the idea that hope should be part of climate change adaptation.
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DA seeks to develop so-called collapse-readiness (ie, creating an equitable system for distribution of life essentials such as food, water, energy, and health care) and collapse-transcendence(fostering psycho-social-spiritual-cultural shifts to accept and live through collapse with some composure and stability).
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Read more: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/group-interventions-climate-change-distress
No doubt climate grief suffers will achieve a happier, more adjusted mental state after being offered a choice between accepting the end of the world with a smile, or ditching capitalism and embracing a simple communal sharing mentality.
Interestingly many group leaders advocating rejection of consumerism and acceptance of the coming climate catastrophe appear to accept payment for the services they provide. No doubt the act of handing over money helps propel the healing transformation from consumerist obsessed climate guilt to a simpler more positive mental outlook which involves owning less stuff.
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“No doubt climate grief suffers will achieve a happier, more adjusted mental state after”… experiencing the excess debt driven hyperinflation that will drive us into a prolonged and deep recession that Harris/Biden/Kerry have in store for us. A little reality should cure the phobia.
Yep.
Maybe the therapy sessions should start with this reality declaration –
“The first thing to realize about life is – none of us are coming out of this alive”
Everything should fall into perspective after acceptance of this reality.
“A little reality should cure the phobia.”
Maybe, but it seems more likely that they would just blame “a prolonged and deep recession” on climate change and get even more depressed.
“…offered a choice between accepting the end of the world with a smile, or ditching capitalism…” Okay, that means that they have to permanently give up all their electronic toys and comm devices, and live the primitive lives that those distant hunter-gatherers lived. And they have to stick with it, permanently.
Aha! A new permaculture, concocted out of dust bunnies and leftover cracker crumbs! They’ll have to learn everything retro including washing all their clothing by hand and hanging it to dry, even when the weather is freezing.
Hmmmm…. I wonder just how long any of them would really last.
They’ll have to learn everything retro including washing all their clothing by hand and hanging it to dry …
Can’t have that .. water vapor is a major GHG
Yahbbut, they won’t be using clothes dryers, and it takes a while to dry clothing on the clothesline, so that nasty greenhouse gas won’t be visible to them. It’ll be a miracle! The water will just disappear to some place unknown, and the laundry will be dry!!!
That’s unless, of course, it’s winter and the washing hung out to dry freezes instead. That was always fun, but I earned $.50 for hanging laundry every week, and nobody minded if the shirts froze stiff. You had to be there….
Sara, I’m from Winnipeg and can assure you clothes dry very well on the line in crisp cold weather (grew up in the 40s and 50s). My mother washed clothes in the bathtub, and the kids helped wring them by hand (there were ‘wringer washers’ but we didnt have one) and then out to hang clothes, sheets, etc on the line. For the first half hour or so, the bedsheets were like sheets of plywood but, they soon dried.
The first thing that should occur to them, Sara, is that while trees are renewable they won’t grow at a sufficient pace to keep up with their new rate of consumption. These basement dwellers have no idea what they are advocating. I guess they think they will just stay in their parents basement with free room and board and the heat will magically come out of the air vents on cloudy windless winter days.
IF they only knew how much CO2 their mobile phones and social media require. Then realize how much stress and anxiety they could relieve by turning the damn things off to go fly a kite. Which is what I suggest they do every time they start up on how I am killing the planet.
I can’t stop giggling at the whole idea that any of them think it’s vaguely possible to go off the electric grid and still survive. If it’s true that they electricity comes out of wall plugs (and some of them do so), they are not going to do well at all…. and I won’t feel sorry for them, nor will I feed them if they wander into my camp.
Is it TWO generations now that think supply of “stuff” is endless? Yeah, well, I also cook… from scratch.
There is some hope, despite the silliness: I see plenty of people who are not like that at all. Therefore, they’ll survive and the rest will just sort of fade into bird songs and firefly signals. There are two sides to that coin, one of which is the side that is not like that at all.
Oh, wait! I know how it turns out!
The crop of ecohippies and greenbeaners that think the world is doomed will end up in walled cities and never venture outside, and the rest of us will be busy hunting, gathering, making stuff that’s useful outside those walls.
they have to permanently give up all their electronic toys and comm devices, and live the primitive lives that those distant hunter-gatherers lived
Most of them couldn’t last a week.
I call it the dreamy dream for “The Peaceful Tribe with iPhones.”
I am still laughing especially at the following ad. And not to make light as there are and should be areas we need to work with as a society!! But the politics being presented and panic producing plots are not helping!!
Can I get a “stimulus” check from the US Federal government for Climate Grief ™ therapy.
Should take less than 100 sessions . . . and the money would certainly stimulate me.
The only thing psychologists are unable to prove, is there own sanity.
No problemo. The APA will simply declare all their neuroses, disorders, and complexes normal in DSM6. Bingo! Sane.
All those research titles are very Sokalian, so they even realise how much they parody themselves?
In all seriousness though, all of this is one huge control experiment. They are using fear to control people and it works. As Frank Herbert said: Fear is the mind killer. Anyone telling you to be afraid is trying to control you.
Living in a constant state of fear is very bad for your health. But the solution is definitely not to learn how to fully live Big Brother.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
— Charles MacKay
MacKay should be compulsory reading at all levels of education.
If students have to start at year 3, and read MacKay every year until graduation, the world might have a chance at rationality some time in the distant future.
“it will be seen that they go mad in herds”
I think that is what we are looking at here. And include the psychologists in the herd.
I wonder if all this destruction pleases The Climategate Charlatans?
The psychologists should be pointing the finger at the Climategate Charlatans as being the cause of all this mental illness. Climategate Charlantan Lies are the cause of the CO2-phobia.
The psychologists need to cure themselves of their own delusions about CO2 before they can heal others. Physician, heal thyself. Read WUWT. That’s the therapy that is needed.
If these therapists didn’t inform their patients about the existence of skeptic climate scientists and science-based sources of AGW skeptic info like WUWT which could have alleviated their patients’ anxiety, could they be hit with some kind of medical malpractice lawsuit?
We had better hope this feeling of despondence about the future is not shared by the majority of today’s youth. It is absolutey sinful how things like this are being used to rob today’s youth’s hope. No wonder suicide has increased when you see nothing but hopelessness in the future.
Sigma Xi recommendations.
STEM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS (older children)
“ Stand Up! Speak Up!: A Story Inspired by the Climate Change Revolution is about empowering kids to act.” https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/science-culture/science-book-gift-guide-2020
“Both my preschooler and my first-grader loved the girl’s story, and they have asked me to read it to them more than once.” Others seem not so bad as far as the titles go. On one on Rachel Carson— “At the end of the book is a brief section about the environmental movement today. Unfortunately, it fails to mention many important advocacy efforts of the past 15 years, including those led by young people, such as the Sunrise Movement.”
So American Scientist Editors are preaching advocacy for kids when they don’t even know how old they are at the same time they are violating the Sigma Xi constitution forbidding influencing legislation by raising money to send subscriptions to schools in states with legislation. I may, others possibly, have made an impact as they now omit (hiding?) from their solicitation the legislation subjects of climate change, evolution, and vaccines. They are getting some pushback from other members, including that they should resign, Lysenko brought up. They are lessening the value that many American Scientist articles have. Their current interest in diversity is with art and music, no offense to those in those professions. And of course the usual unscientific diversity.
need a follow on
shut up and sit down;-)))
you havent lived long enough to HAVE an opinion
Many years ago Sigma Xi was a real science education organization. One spectacular outing they hired a DC3 and flew a group of us from McGill to spend a day touring the Chalk River nuclear plant. An amazing day!
an adelaide sth aus uni acting course…was pilloroed for NOT being activist enough in their online Advertiser paper today..
yes all the kids are /have been scared witless for the last 20 yrs or more
which is why absolute drivel like the psyh mobs above even exist!!
The high in Boulder, CO was 27°F – do you have a directory of climate grief counselors? Maybe I could find somebody to talk to about my existential angst- it should have been much colder today.
Get out for the winter. My Boulder bro is leaving Tues. to winter near Tucson. ):
I have a kid in school still or I’d be out of here ASAP!
The simplest solution would be to convince these morons that they know nothing about global warming and there is nothing “equitable” about where the electricity you use comes from.
Climate anxiety is reportedly a serious problem among children. Our schools have been active in spreading this false alarm. I have written several missives to the Alberta Teachers Association and the Alberta Minster of Education, strongly advising against this harmful and unscientific nonsense.
Both have yet to reply in a rational manner – we are governed (and our children are taught) buy scoundrels and imbeciles.
“Interestingly many group leaders advocating rejection of consumerism and acceptance of the coming climate catastrophe appear to accept payment for the services they provide.”
Do you think the irony is lost on the Simon, Ghalfrunt, Lyodo….
Most of them would probably use the Extinction Rebellion excuse; while they are trapped by a system which doesn’t deliver free stuff to their door because they are so special, they are forced to live within the rules of the system they hope to overthrow.
You are most likely right, regardless it was a brilliant sentence!
Thanks Derg 🙂
I think I need to throw in my job and start running Climate Grief Therapy Bootcamps.
Maybe if these people have to start the day on a 10K run through the snow they may stop worrying about an small amount of warming?
I suspect if you try to get them to do anything other than sit in a comfortable room and moan about how unfair life is they would probably ditch your therapy session.
You forgot Griff. Griff needs this therapy ASAP or, maybe he is one of the therapists? OIt’s all so confusing. I blame climate change.
Well, what happens when these now-children find out in 30 to 40 years that they were lied to all along?
Riots, vandalism, cities burning…. oh, wait. That was this past summer, on a different subject.
They will never know they were lied to. As Mark Twain pointed out, it is far easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they were fooled. The 20th Century and the beginning of this century establish that.
“Well, what happens when these now-children find out in 30 to 40 years that they were lied to all along?”
That’s my question, too. Eventually, this is going to happen. When is the question. Probably not before many Trillions of dollars are wasted trying to fix a CO2 problem that does not exist.
The temperatures over the next decade ought to tell the tale. Although, if it does get colder, the alarmists have already said a decade or two of colder weather does not disprove their Human-caused Climate Change claims. So they think they are covered no matter which way the temperatures go. It must be nice to be able to have your cake and eat it, too. If you can swing it, which in this case will be easier said than done. CO2 going up while temperatures are going down is not a good look for the alarmists.
“intentionally challenges the idea that hope should be part of climate change adaptation”
Because making people feel despair is such a lovely thing to do and not something a genuinely evil, twisted and malevolent person would do. Is this a breach of professional ethics? Disgusting.
I hope these therapists make a killing.
Never disrespect someone’s hustle.
– Xzibit
“Make a killing” — literally.
Since eco-freaks believe humans are a cancer on the planet, I have long recommended that they lead by example and kill themselves. These therapists could go a long way in culling that herd.
Unless these Grief Therapists are in touch with their inner Sam Kennison, they’re over rated.
Let’s see this list of Chinese Communist Party members in the West. Let’s compare it with the Deloitte list of leftist activists who have been bribed with $1billion of foreign money to sabotage the Canadian economy – a list the Alberta government received on 31Jan2020 and still has not released.
How many influential Canadian politicians, government workers, teachers and corporate employees are on one or both lists?
Why won’t the Alberta government release the Deloitte bribes list? What are they hiding?
Americans should be asking the same questions and one more – how many Democratic Party members, government workers, teachers, etc. are also members of the Chinese Communist Party?
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MAJOR LEAK ‘EXPOSES’ MEMBERS AND ‘LIFTS THE LID’ ON THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001
13December2020
See also:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046783/Leaked-files-expose-mass-infiltration-UK-firms-Chinese-Communist-Party.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-huge-data-leak-exposes-chinese-communist-party-members-embedded-in-western-companies-and-governments
A major leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members has occurred – exposing members who are now working all over the world, while also lifting the lid on how the party operates under Xi Jinping, says Sharri Markson.
Ms Markson said the leak is a register with the details of Communist Party members, including their names, party position, birthday, national ID number and ethnicity.
“It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the world,” the Sky News host said.
“What’s amazing about this database is not just that it exposes people who are members of the communist party, and who are now living and working all over the world, from Australia to the US to the UK,” Ms Markson said.
“But it’s amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping”.
Ms Markson said the leak demonstrates party branches are embedded in some of the world’s biggest companies and even inside government agencies.
“Communist party branches have been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those companies by CCP members – who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist party, to the Chairman, the president himself,” she said.
“Along with the personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companies”.
Ms Markson said the leak is a significant security breach likely to embarrass Xi Jinping.
“It is also going to embarrass some global companies who appear to have no plan in place to protect their intellectual property from theft. From economic espionage,” she said.
Ms Markson said the data was extracted from a Shanghai server by Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers, in April 2016, who have been using it for counter-intelligence purposes.
“It was then leaked in mid-September to the newly-formed international bi-partisan group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China – and that group is made up of 150 legislators around the world.
“It was then provided to an international consortium of four media organisations, The Australian, The Sunday Mail in the UK, De Standaard in Belgium and a Swedish editor, to analyse over the past two months, and that’s what we’ve done”.
Ms Markson said it, “is worth noting that there’s no suggestion that these members have committed espionage – but the concern is over whether Australia or these companies knew of the CCP members and if so have any steps been taken to protect their data and people”.
Is it possible that wind projects throughout five eyes countries are part of an agenda to industrialize rural communities and make them uninhabitable, in preparation for a form of colonization/ ‘land grab’ in order to get land for growing food for China?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256016776_China%27s_Impact_on_the_Global_Wind_Power_Industry
The crisis is phony but, unfortunately, the psychological impact appears to be real. There is no shortage of these “rent-a-friends” willing to step in for a price, of course.
This is called a cult. It doesn’t have to make sense.
MacKay should be compulsory reading at all levels of education.
If students have to start at year 3, and read MacKay every year until graduation, the world might have a chance at rationality some time in the distant future.
So, if a therapist reinforces the pathological ideation and therefore prolonging the state of neurotic confusion, that’s malpractice. There are criminals among us who will stop at nothing. A sociopathic therapist is the most dangerous of the dangerous. What ever happened to do no harm? MD? I think not.
Consider the moral priorities of a therapist whose ideology is based on the concept that there are too many people.
At least we can tell PTEditor@mmhgroup.com what we think. As someone with experience in climate alarmism de-brainwashing, I will certainly do so. I have made several responses to a number of these climate carpetbaggers, and have not received any replies. The interventions I do are all pro bono. I guess I might need to do more, if there is going to be a nasty outbreak of “Great Turnings”, or “Collapse-Transcendence”.
Sustainable? Save a bird, a bat, whack a wind turbine. Clear the photovoltaic pollution from the land and Green blight on the environment. Throw another baby on the barbie, redistribute… cannibalize her profitable parts, and sequester her carbon ashes. Carbon offsets are for flippant bigots who don’t care about Gaia, flora, and fauna. Kneel before Stork with a liberal revelry and gay countenance. #WickedSolutions
Does the therapist exact reparations or do they self-flagellate?
Interestingly many group leaders advocating rejection of consumerism and acceptance of the coming climate catastrophe appear to accept payment for the services they provide.
Of course. How else are they gonna pay for their beach from mansion?
They won’t have to pay for it. It will be given to them free by a grateful government that has been voted complete control of everything by the now terrified populace.