Climate Change Delusion Diagnosed as Mental Disorder in Australia
Environmentalism, Global Warming, Madness, Popular Delusions, Psychiatry, Psychology
Call the men in the white coats with the butterfly nets, we’ve got plenty of the afflicted right here in America.
Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun:
Psychiatrists have (diagnosed) the first case of “climate change delusion.” …
Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children’s Hospital say this delusion was a “previously unreported phenomenon”.
“A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events.” …
“The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies.”
