We all need help sometimes.
Getting help can be frustrating. That's why we've created a resource list to get you the help you need. It's currently focused on UK resources, but we aim to expand this in future.
As young people, there are often financial barriers to getting help, which is why we list mostly free or low-cost services.
Thank you to organisations such as Black Minds Matter, Saffron Records, MIND and Off the Record whose own resources have helped to guide this list.
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Not sure how to help the young people in your life who are feeling climate anxiety?
- Listening to their concerns, even if they're hard to hear and validate their emotions.
- Let them know that climate anxiety isn't a mental health illness, it's a natural and healthy reaction to a crisis. It shows they are aware of their surroundings and that they care about the future. 84% of 16-25 year olds feel climate anxiety, so they aren't alone.
- Share your feelings with them.
- Simply telling them that you're scared too can go a long way in making young people feel understood. It's frustrating and alienating to think you're the only one who feels this way, so let them know they aren't.
- Don't try and "fix" these feelings.
- Young people feeling climate anxiety aren't broken, they're awake. They don't need to be fixed, they need to be listened to. Help them find ways to process their climate emotions and take positive action.
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Force of Nature, Caroline Hickman and Clover Hogan : getting to grips with eco-anxiety
Clover Hogan, Force of Nature, interviews depth psychologist Caroline Hickman on what eco-anxiety is and how we can transform it.
University of Bath Minerva Lecture on Climate Crisis & Young People with Elouise Mayall UK Youth Climate Coalition) (July 2020)
Caroline Hickman and Elouise Mayall, recent graduate from the University of East Anglia and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition, engage in discussion about the climate crisis, coronavirus and anxiety.
The Conversation, ‘I’m up late at night worrying about global warming – please can you put my mind at rest?’
Psychologist Caroline Hickman interviews a young girl about her experience with eco-anxiety.
The Conversation, ‘A psychotherapist explains why some adults are reacting badly to young climate strikers’
Caroline Hickman draws on psychology to explain the condemnation of the youth strike movement from some adults.
Scientific American, ‘Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon’
Author of ‘A field guide to climate anxiety’, Sarah Jaquette Ray explores why eco-anxiety seems to be felt predominantly by white people.
Royal College for Psychiatrists, ‘Eco-distress’
Support in understanding and coping with eco-distress from the Royal Society of Psychiatrists
How changemakers’ inner wellbeing influences their work
A cross-sector report on how increased attention to individual and collective wellbeing has net benefits for all.
Friends of the Earth podcast: what is eco anxiety?
In episode 5 of FoE’s podcast, Climate Campaigner Muna Suleiman talks to producer Isobel, journalist Emma Beddington and psychotherapist Caroline Hickman about eco anxiety, how to deal with stressful feelings, and why feelings of despair might actually be a good thing.
Extinction Rebellion in conversation with Naresh Giangrande (climate crisis & hope)
A dialogue between Clare Farrell (Extinction Rebellion), Caroline Hickman from Climate Psychology Alliance and Naresh Giangrande from Transition Towns and Deep Adaptation around the themes of collapse and hope.
BBC, Costing the Earth: eco anxiety podcast
In this podcast, Verity Sharp meets the eco-anxious to better understand its psychological effects.
Bad Activist Collective, ‘Eco-anxiety, another coopted struggle’
Tori Tsui details her experience of how eco-anxiety has come to centre the mental health of white environmentalists.
TEDx BathUniversity, Caroline Hickman: climate psychology & eco-anxiety
Caroline Hickman talks about the psychological barriers to climate change in this TEDxBathUniversity talk.
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