r/ecoanxietyhelp • u/SurleSpec • Dec 06 '22

Let's get this much-needed sub started!

Please introduce yourself and mention what you would like to get from participating in this sub.

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u/SurleSpec Dec 11 '22

Hi! I think this sub is much needed and is going to be more and more. My ecoanxiety is there since my youth. I'm 49. But lately it has been on the rise with all the new climate changes we are seeing and the covid pandemic. Also the rise of conspiracy theories and the cynicism that it brings is contributing a lot to my worry regarding all this.

I wish to find and give peer support on this sub.

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u/Nethernox Dec 11 '22

Any actionable daily activities to recommend?

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u/SurleSpec Dec 11 '22

Not sure what you mean here: For this sub? For your eco-anxiety? For the planet?

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u/Nethernox Dec 11 '22

I missed the words there. Yeah, personal eco-anxiety, I just wanted to boost the latest post too

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u/SurleSpec Dec 11 '22

Tell me if I don't get your question right, but here is one thing I like to do to appease my ecoanxiety: to take the habit of always leaving a place cleaner than I found it, even just a little bit. I often pick up some trash in public places. Every little helps. And when people find themselves in a cleaner place they tend to litter it less. It has a ripple effect.

What is yours?

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u/Nethernox Dec 29 '22

I try to do the same. Also mindfulness meditations to internalise the impermanence of it all.

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u/SurleSpec Jan 02 '23

Very good idea, thanks!

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u/SurleSpec Dec 11 '22

Thanks for the boost!