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Community Is Medicine

Returning the responsibility for preventing and healing climate and other traumas to neighborhoods and communities.

Resilience
Is Unconstrained Freedom Harming Mental Health?

Bob Doppelt on November 2, 2024

Most people don't realize it, but an underlying driver of the accelerating climate and mental health crises is the concept of unrestricted freedom.

Most people don't realize it, but an underlying driver of the accelerating climate and mental health crises is the concept of unrestricted freedom.

Resilience
In the Face of Climate Change, Resilience Alone Is Not Enough

Bob Doppelt on September 3, 2024

Returning to previous conditions after climate traumas will often fail. People need to engage in the transformational resilience cycle to find new meaning and purpose in life.

Returning to previous conditions after climate traumas will often fail. People need to engage in the transformational resilience cycle to find new meaning and purpose in life.

Resilience
Why Communities Should Participate in the Race to Resilience

Bob Doppelt on July 3, 2024

This article is a call to action for all community leaders to actively build psychosocial resilience for the climate crisis. The UN Race to Resilience Campaign is one way to do so.

This article is a call to action for all community leaders to actively build psychosocial resilience for the climate crisis. The UN Race to Resilience Campaign is one way to do so.

Resilience
Forget Sustainability—Regeneration Is Now Urgently Needed

Bob Doppelt on May 20, 2024

Many people believe we should make our economy "sustainable"—but that would only sustain degraded ecological conditions. Instead, we need to regenerate conditions.

Many people believe we should make our economy "sustainable"—but that would only sustain degraded ecological conditions. Instead, we need to regenerate conditions.

Trauma
How the U.S. Can Become Trauma-Informed

Bob Doppelt on March 20, 2024

The U.S. is experiencing more than a mental health epidemic, as many of the systems intended to prevent suffering are exacerbating—or even causing—trauma and stress.

The U.S. is experiencing more than a mental health epidemic, as many of the systems intended to prevent suffering are exacerbating—or even causing—trauma and stress.

Climate Anxiety
It’s Time to “De-Privatize” Mental Health

Bob Doppelt on February 14, 2024

Mental health professionals have been trained to believe individuals alone are responsible for their psychological and emotional troubles. But this is wrong in ways.

Mental health professionals have been trained to believe individuals alone are responsible for their psychological and emotional troubles. But this is wrong in ways.

Climate Anxiety
Climate Anxiety in Make-Believe Mirrors Real Time

Bob Doppelt on January 19, 2024

Society is sleepwalking into the climate-ecosystem-biodiversity catastrophe, causing growing anxiety and grief. Here's how we can deal with it.

Society is sleepwalking into the climate-ecosystem-biodiversity catastrophe, causing growing anxiety and grief. Here's how we can deal with it.

Resilience
Communities Are Medicine

Bob Doppelt on January 10, 2024

There's a different way to prevent and heal mental health and psychosocial problems.

There's a different way to prevent and heal mental health and psychosocial problems.