Week 10: Mental Health

Week 10: Mental Health

1. Environment and mental health

   • Higher rates of pollution increase rates of depression
   • Changing environments causing low mental health

2. Eco-anxiety

   • Chronic fear of suffering an environmental cataclysm

3. Ecological Grief

   • Mourning that comes when losing the natural environment - triggers grief

4. Solastalgia

   • "the homesickness you have when you are still at home"

5. Mental Health impacts

   • Direct
     • Depression, suicide, dementia, psychotic illness, substance abuse
   • Indirect
     • Sense of loss, stress, mental distress

6. Climate Refugees

   • Protection for those who live in a country where they face risk to their life due to environment degradation

7. Rigolet, Labrador

   • Losing land identity, hunting groups
     • Causes stress, substance abuse, loss of connection
   • Ecological Grief
     • Losing the traditional environment around them

8. Coping Strategies

   • Talk about feelings
   • Take action
   • Coping strategies