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Visit my library: R<\/a><\/strong>esearch in Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Mental Health<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My clients and students express to me daily their burnout and despair over the state of the world and their fears for the future. It is not only our anxiety or depression, or even climate change anxiety, that we feel as individuals, but that of our collective breaking heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet it is because we open our hearts to the suffering of others that we also need to transform these feelings into the fire of action, to stir this despair, depression, anxiety, and sense of helplessness in the cauldron of transmutation into activities and use this energy to repair the world.  We have long known as clinicians that volunteering and providing service is healing for people with PTSD. A recent study showed significant improvement in life satisfaction and self-perceived success in traumatic brain-injured patients following 3 months of volunteering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activism takes this a step further, and there is a growing body of research reinforcing activism as an antidote to despair: One research study found that engaging in collective action, but not individual action, significantly reduced the association between Climate Change Anxiety and major depression (Schwartz, 2022). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, numerous findings also identify that, over time, activists can be vulnerable to burnout and depression if they do not pace themselves, engage in self-care, eat well, move, and connect with active family members and friends. This suggests the nuanced approaches to our work as therapists to help activists sustain their work and their mental health for the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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