This post tackles subjects such as depression, anxiety and climate catastrophe.
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Find South Asian Therapists
Articles
Seeking Therapy in the South Asian Community (Psychology Today)
South Asians and Mental Health (SAYHU)
South Asians in Therapy: Challenging Norms and Taboos (The Juggernaut)
Your Heart is Racing
You can barely breathe. The world is hotter than it has ever been, but every time you even think about it your body shorts out on you.
Your brain is on the fritz. You mind keeps playing out different versions of the apocalypse. You have nightmares about population collapse, mass extinction events and rising oceans.
It’s getting in the way of your work. And spending time with friends doesn’t seem to help. Like the planet, you feel like you’re in a doom loop.
You’re not crazy.
You’re not weird.
You have a very real, very natural reaction to the world that we, your elders, left you. You have climate anxiety.
Climate Anxiety
Is not the same as worry, according to the experts at Yale. Those Yalies say 64% of Americans are “somewhat worried” about climate change. And they want more people to be worried about it. Why?
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