"Melissa Pickett, an eco-therapist in Santa Fe, N.M., who says she treats dozens of patients a month, said sometimes she has to tell extreme greenies to chill out for their own good. "The global warming craze will cause your clients to go into extremism fueled by fear," she says."

"And with eco-therapy around, that extremism can get expensive. Eco-therapy can cost as much as traditional psychotherapy, upwards of $100 an hour. There's a lot of green in being green."

"But Pickett said eco-therapy helps those grappling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness about the environment."

"People break down and cry. They develop obsessive-compulsive behavior. They have nightmares," Pickett said. "And these are normally high-functioning people."

She pushes her eco-disturbed patients to take shorter showers, turn off lights and computers, consume less, buy less and learn as much as they can about global warming.

She should try telling them to breath less because they put more of that deadly CO2 onto the atmosphere every time they exhale.

Obscurantism

could it be that they were so worried that they forgot to
purchase their carbon-offsets for the month?