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Offline Chris_

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Climate change takes a mental toll
« on: February 09, 2009, 07:40:12 AM »
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Climate change takes a mental toll

Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of "climate change delusion."

Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders focused on climate change, as well as children who are having nightmares about global-warming-related natural disasters.

Such anxiety over current events is not a new phenomenon. Worries about contemporary threats, such as nuclear war or AIDS, have historically been woven into the mental illnesses of each generation. But global warming could have a broader and deeper effect on mental health, even if indirectly.

Maybe if we raise taxes high enough and spend all that money on "scientific research" we can save the world.   :whatever:

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Re: Climate change takes a mental toll
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 07:52:11 AM »
Quote from: lug-nut on February 09, 2009, 07:40:12 AM
Maybe if we raise taxes high enough and spend all that money on "scientific research" we can save the world.   :whatever:

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(let's keep this on so-called AGW, OK?)

The other thread we had where kids are being told they are killing polar bears really deeply disturbed me. The left is hyper-politicizing the youth of America and unnecessarily scaring the crap out of them.  Every day, the AGW crew have to step backwards.  The ice caps are GROWING, the last 10 years have been generally COOLER than in centuries, species that were supposed to be extinct by now based on early AGW "theories" (which meet exactly zero criteria for a Scientific Theory) are thriving.

I really feel sorry for today's kids.  I wish there was something I could do besides writing and calling my congrescritters (yeah, that's gonna work in Kalifornia).

If you have kids, homeschool them NOW and get ready to fight THAT fight.
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Re: Climate change takes a mental toll
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2009, 07:55:28 AM »
I think that a person has to be insane to believe in GloWBull warming anyway. At least to believe that it is caused by humans, anyway.
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Re: Climate change takes a mental toll
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2009, 08:07:36 AM »
No kidding it takes a mental toll............all the banging of your head against the wall when discussing it with a believer IDJIT really starts to take a mental toll
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