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  • One of these stages involves "eco-anxiety," a state of persistent fear about the very real crisis we face that can be at the core of many of the "environmental depressions" Walsh refers to.

    Linda Buzzell: TIME Article on Eco-Therapy 2009

  • There isn't a diagnostic label [now] for green fatigue or eco-anxiety.

    I’m So Tired Of Being Green 2008

  • The German word ‘Weltschmerz’ Worldpain comes very close to the concept of eco-anxiety – to bear all the pain and worries of the world.

    Do you suffer from Eco-Anxiety? | ultraorange.net 2008

  • German word ‘Weltschmerz’ Worldpain is an excellent way to describe eco-anxiety.

    Do you suffer from Eco-Anxiety? | ultraorange.net 2008

  • The German word ‘Weltschmerz’ Worldpain comes very close to the concept of eco-anxiety – to bear all the pain and worries of the world.

    2008 July | ultraorange.net 2008

  • A new field, eco-psychology, has even arisen to help people cope with their mounting "eco-anxiety" — worries not just about the planet's health but also about their own environmental inadequacies.

    I’m So Tired Of Being Green 2008

  • Soaring petrol prices offer some explanation, but the true cause has more to do with the vehicle's questionable image in an age of deepening eco-anxiety.

    When Is Big Too Big? 2007

  • Fessenden, whose own directorial efforts have included the vampire-addiction pic "Habit" and the unnerving eco-anxiety chiller "The Last Winter," has geared production shingle Glass Eye Pix toward a hybrid of intellectual and visceral horror, and "Feast" is a prime example.

    Variety.com 2010

  • To the point his mother - a well-wrought character herself - feels compelled to send him to a psychiatrist about his sleep-depriving eco-anxiety.

    Coach House Books kira 2010

  • To the point his mother - a well-wrought character herself - feels compelled to send him to a psychiatrist about his sleep-depriving eco-anxiety.

    Coach House Books kira 2010

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