How to Deal With Burnt Out Emotions

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Caroline says people need validation, and you're not on your own with this. We shouldn't need to feel ok all the time but equally don't want to get stuck in it. The important thing is that we keep communicating with each other as things are getting worse. You cannot take a radical hope approach to this. We may be going off a cliff as humanity, but we're going to go down fighting," she adds.

The impacts of the climate crisis are undeniably here. Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding are causing devastation around the world. And yet, we still aren’t seeing the drastic action that’s required to avert climate disaster. As things get worse, it’s easy to give up hope – but ‘climate doomism’ is just as dangerous as climate denial. Anand Jagatia speaks to psychotherapist Caroline Hickman about her research on climate anxiety, and how we can turn feelings of doom into positive action. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod