While scientists like Colborn are making environmentally sound lifestyle choices based on their research results, a growing number of people have literally worried themselves sick over various environmental doomsday scenarios.
Their worry even has a name: eco-anxiety.
Melissa Pickett, an eco-therapist with a practice in Santa Fe, N.M., sees anywhere from 40 to 80 eco-anxious patients a month. They complain of panic attacks, loss of appetite, irritability and unexplained bouts of weakness, sleeplessness and “buzzing,” which they describe as the eerie feeling that their cells are twitching. Pickett’s remedies include telling patients to carry natural objects, like certain minerals, with them for a period of weeks.
You know what she suffering from don't you?
Al Gorephobia.
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