Psychology Around the Net: February 8, 2020

This article offers tips for those struggling with severe health anxiety. The Environmental Burden of Generation Z: Kids today are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change. In this article, the author discusses why this is so: “As climate change continues unabated, parents, teachers and medical professionals across the country find themselves face-to-face with a quandary: How do you raise a generation to look toward the future with hope when all around them swirls a message of apparent hopelessness?” Students Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy: In this article, the author expresses how students at Stanford University are at risk of expending “immense financial and emotional resources” just trying to obtain some mental health therapy — and how this problem is mirrored all over the nation at various campuses. For Farmworkers Facing Debilitating Depression, Is Teletherapy a Solution?: This article begins with the poignant story of Marco Garcia, a 57-year-old Mexican-born farmworker in North Carolina. Due to a diabetic ulcer on his leg, Garcia cannot walk, much less work. “I would think, ‘What am I doing in this world? I would get to a point where I would rather die. I felt like I was [of] no use,” he said. Thankfully, Garcia was offered teletherapy by the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (NCFHP), and though reluctant at first, he believes it helped pull him out of his deep depression. Unfortunately, many farmworkers ...
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