Climate Change Delusion [The Corpus Callosum]

Category: Psychiatry Posted on: July 9, 2008 7:31 AM, by Joseph j7uy5 Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital reported, in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, on a case of a person with delusional beliefs regarding climate change. There is no openly-accessible abstract, (the link to the paywall page is here) so we have to make do with a news report: We describe a patient with climate change delusion, a previously unreported phenomenon. A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an 8 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... [read full story]