Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Week 10: Mental Health
- Environment and mental health
- Higher rates of
pollution increase
rates of depression
- Changing environments
causing low mental health
- Eco-anxiety
- Chronic fear of
suffering an
environmental
cataclysm
- Ecological Grief
- Mourning that comes when
losing the natural environment
- triggers grief
- Solastalgia
- "the homesickness you have
when you are still at home"
- Mental Health impacts
- Direct
- Depression, suicide,
dementia, psychotic
illness, substance abuse
- Indirect
- Sense of loss, stress, mental distress
- Climate Refugees
- Protection for those who live in a
country where they face risk to
their life due to environment
degradation
- Rigolet, Labrador
- Losing land identity, hunting groups
- Causes stress, substance abuse, loss of connection
- Ecological Grief
- Losing the traditional environment around them
- Coping Strategies
- Talk about feelings
- Take action
- Coping strategies