{"id":219271,"date":"2025-08-02T04:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/the-hidden-mental-health-cost-of-climate-distress"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:13:57","slug":"the-hidden-mental-health-cost-of-climate-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/the-hidden-mental-health-cost-of-climate-distress","title":{"rendered":"The hidden mental health cost of climate distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-hidden-mental-health-cost-of-climate-distress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Stanford-led study sheds light on \u201can emerging psychological health crisis\u201d that disproportionately affects girls. Published July 30 in <i>The Lancet Planetary Health<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.lanplh.2025.05.003\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> is among the first to quantify how repeated climate stressors impact the psychological well-being and future outlook of adolescents in low-resource settings.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Stanford\u2019s schools of Medicine, Law, and Sustainability partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/health+experts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">health experts<\/a> in Bangladesh to survey more than 1,000 teenagers and conduct focus groups across two regions with starkly different flood exposure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found really lifts the voices of frontline <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/adolescents\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">adolescents <\/a>\u2014a group whose perspectives and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/health+outcomes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">health outcomes<\/a> are so rarely investigated and communicated,\u201d said lead author Liza Goldberg, an incoming Earth system science Ph.D. student in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Stanford-led study sheds light on \u201can emerging psychological health crisis\u201d that disproportionately affects girls. Published July 30 in The Lancet Planetary Health, the study is among the first to quantify how repeated climate stressors impact the psychological well-being and future outlook of adolescents in low-resource settings. Researchers from Stanford\u2019s schools of Medicine, Law, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}