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Today’s Fox News has a story about Sarah Edwards — a PhD (“Piled high and Deep”) — who suffers from “Eco-Anxiety”: “the growing angst experienced by those who can’t handle the thought that they — or anyone — are in some way contributing to global warming, species extinction and dwindling natural resources.”

No, we’re not making this up.

The article, Is Going Green Making You Crazy? It’s Time for Eco-Therapy has the pathetic details:

Sarah Edwards worries about the gasoline she burns, the paper towels she throws out, the litter on the beach, water pollution. She worries so much, it literally makes her sick.

“Fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression,” Edwards says, pointing to the negativity that has manifested itself in real-life symptoms such as neck and shoulder pain, fibromyalgia and fatigue.

“I had so much pathos. It’s so sad,” says Edwards, who moved from California’s crowded Santa Monica to a secluded cabin in Los Padres National Forest to help her cope.

Now, she says: “We only drive to the grocery store every three weeks. We have our own source of water. We compost and no longer heat every room on the first floor.”

Edwards suffers from eco-anxiety, the growing angst experienced by those who can’t handle the thought that they — or anyone — are in some way contributing to global warming, species extinction and dwindling natural resources.

She recently launched a blog called “Eco-Anxiety” because she believes environmental dangers should be taken seriously. “This is severely disturbing,” she says.

The story then notes that there are perhaps 100 or more “eco-therapists” (or “eco-psychologists” — of which Edwards is one, by the way) who treat people suffering from “eco-anxiety.” Of course, Al Gore’s hysterical power-point presentation, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is cited as a inducer of “eco-anxiety.”

Melissa Pickett, an eco-therapist in Santa Fe, N.M., who says she treats dozens of patients a month, said sometimes she has to tell extreme greenies to chill out for their own good. “The global warming craze will cause your clients to go into extremism fueled by fear,” she says.

And with eco-therapy around, that extremism can get expensive. Eco-therapy can cost as much as traditional psychotherapy, upwards of $100 an hour. There’s a lot of green in being green.

But Pickett said eco-therapy helps those grappling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness about the environment.

“People break down and cry. They develop obsessive-compulsive behavior. They have nightmares,” Pickett said. “And these are normally high-functioning people.”

She pushes her eco-disturbed patients to take shorter showers, turn off lights and computers, consume less, buy less and learn as much as they can about global warming.

Yeah, that will work. By “learn as much…about global warming” we’re confident that means descending further into the hysterical, chicken-little partisanship of the global warming alarmists. Perhaps if these neurotics examined the arguments of scientists who have rebutted the extremist positions on global warming, they wouldn’t be in such a panic.

Human-induced “global warming” is a scam. Losing your mind over it is insanity.

By the way, Sarah Edwards authors a blog on “eco-anxiety.”

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