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i've been thinking about this a lot lately and I think I was alarmed by and have consistently been wigged out by climate change because I come from a family that is very motivated out of depressive states by crisis energy. on both sides of the tree.

this includes both religious and public health based scenarios, but also breaks out into smaller daily crises that we habitually throw ourselves into and rally around. climate change is just THE big ever looming one that i can ALWAYS use to pull myself out of a frozen funk.

so as i go through trauma counseling and try to undo this conditioning that seems to be intergenerational, how then do I decide to engage with climate change when not using it to shock my nervous system into action? it feels DANGEROUS to let go of that orientation.

i need to find a new therapist who will actually talk about climate change with me is what i'm getting from this thread thanks for listening.