Alan Rosen, AO, MBBS April 2020
Clinical Psychiatry News
Reflection on the mental health implications of climate change, such as ‘solastalgia’ as the emotional pain, existential distress, loss, and grieving derived from rapid and severe changes in one’s geophysical environment or familiar habitat. Psychiatric consequences to experiencing climate impacts like fire and drought including: Trauma, post-traumatic hyperarousal, hypervigilance, anxiety and depression.
