Climate-Related Anxiety, Alarmism, and Distress: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Evidence-Based Coping Strategies
Climate-related anxiety refers to psychological distress triggered by awareness of environmental threats—such as climate change, extreme weather, species loss, or pollution—resulting in worry, rumination, sleep disruption, irritability, or avoidance. While concern about real-world harm is common and often adaptive, anxiety becomes clinically significant when symptoms are persistent, disproportionate to actual risk, impairing functioning, or occurring… Read More »