Definition

Mental health conditions caused by the impact of environmental change and disasters on individuals. Examples include eco-anxiety, ecological grief (eco-grief), solastalgia, and climate trauma.

Further reading
Mental Health - Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) [website]
Chronic Environmental Change: Emerging ‘Psychoterratic’ Syndromes (Albrecht, 2011) [book chapter]
Eco-emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change (Cianconi et al., 2023) [journal article]
Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being (Niedzwiedz et al., 2025) [journal article]
Related

climate anxiety; climate change anxiety; climate burnout; climate change distress; climate change worry; climate depression; climate distress; climate emotions; climate grief; climate psychology; climate worry; clinical psychology; distress; Earth emotions; eco anger; eco-anger; ecoanxiety; eco-burnout; eco depression; eco-depression; eco despair; eco-despair; eco distress; eco-distress; eco emotions; eco-emotions; eco fear; eco-fear; eco guilt; eco-guilt; ecological emotions; ecological grief; ecological trauma; ecoparalysis; eco-paralysis; eco phobia; eco-phobia; ecopsychology; eco shame; eco-shame; eco trauma; eco-trauma; emotional health; environmental moral distress; environmental stress; environmental trauma; helplessness; hopelessness; mental health syndromes; mental illnesses; mental wellbeing; psychological responses; psychoterratic conditions; psychoterratic responses; terrafurie (Earth rage); tierratrauma

See also
Extreme weather
Migrant health
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Drafted by
Chris Graham
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