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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts) Sun Apr 19, 2015, 07:12 PM Apr 2015

A new field of mental illness has its first candidate ailment

Psychoterratic illness:

"I am developing a conceptual framework for understanding psychoterratic, or earth related (terra) mental health (psyche) states or conditions. I want to contribute to an expanded understanding of the changing relationship between the states of biophysical and built environments and human mental and physical health. Despite the importance of connections between environmental or ecosystem health and human health (physical and mental) in many cultures, we have very few concepts in English that address environmentally-induced mental distress, or conversely, environmentally enhanced positive mental health. What I am attempting to do now is develop a rich psychoterratic typology that provides a language and conceptual landscape to match the rich range of emotions and feelings people have about nature and place."

Australian philosopher Professor Glenn Albrecht

And the lucky first mental illness iis:

Solastalgia:

Solastalgia is a neologism coined by an Australian; The philosopher named Glenn Albrecht in 2003 with the first article published on this concept in 2005.[1] It describes a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change, such as mining or climate change.

Conceptualising environmentally induced distress as mental illness has been discussed by Seamus Mac Suibhne.

Isn't that special!!!

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My, But Isn't This Nice To Know? Systematic Chaos Apr 2015 #1

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Mon Apr 20, 2015, 04:57 AM

Apr 2015

So, in addition to the nearlessly endless list of things "wrong" with me due to an upbringing in a home which was dominated by a single parent who was a narcissistic, alcoholic, compulsive gambling, chain smoking machine built of pure cray-cray I now get to further tag myself as "orthoexic" for daring to insist that I be fed a HEALTHY vegan diet while hospitalized, as opposed to the other 873 patients who were too fucking stupid and lazy to make the connection between their triple bypass and their eight stents, and the almost daily trips to Burger King for lunch!

And while we're at it, hey! What the actual fuck, but let's slap the kid with ANOTHER ONE, or three, because he's got the wherewithal to recognize that his one and only planet is circling the drain, and would you believe we're all out of Extra Balls and 1-ups?

If there's also an official name for the syndrome whereby I wish to silently grin and reflect as I watch the motherfuckers who invented all the cool syndrome names die right along with me, then that's just lovely! I wanna wear that shit like a badge of honor.

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