Eco-anxiety refers to anxiety about the environmental crisis and concerns about climate change. It can be both paralyzing and mobilizing, depending on the context, the emotions of the moment and the individual’s personality.
It is neither a syndrome nor an official psychiatric diagnosis.
Anxiety-provoking media coverage, based mainly on alarmist forecasts rather than on the positive actions taken to combat the problems, largely sustains the phenomenon.
The best way to relieve this anxiety is to ACT!
To delve deeper into the subject, a serious article written by the magazine PSYCHOLOGY TODAY:
