Could climate anxiety be a form of pre-traumatic stress disorder? A psychologist explains the research

The hypothesis arose from observations of climate scientists and their growing feelings of anger, distress, helplessness and depression as the climate situation has worsened

The term climate anxiety covers a range of negative emotions and states, including not just anxiety, but worry and concern, hopelessness, anger, fear, grief and sadness.

We are living in an age of anxiety. People face multiple existential crises such as climate change and conflicts that could potentially escalate into nuclear war.

So how do people cope with competing threats like this? And what happens to climate anxiety when wars suddenly erupt and compete for our attention?