Solastalgia 2.0
Rethinking collective emotions
As any other terms and distresses created by either inner states, one can approach solastalgia as one of the individual diseases, schizophrenia or depression. Yet since inside solastalgia there is deep intrinsic feeling of the interconnectedness nature, just as Sheldrake and Adamaztky describe in their studies of fungus, one cannot simply tackle solastalgia, collective disease by individual notion, one needs to codesign collective rituals, which will help to reconsider solastalgia as a notion itself.
Instead of fighting solastalgia— accepting solastalgia
In our Western societies we often deal with problems by solving them instead of accepting the fact that it may not be possible to solving them any time soon (like some diseases in our society we may need to learn how to live with them in peace).
Hence one can consider solastalgia as a new challenging task not just for psychologists to work with their patients, but for all humans working with architects, artists, musicians, all citizens who invent and create new spaces of integrity and unity and symbiotic relations for living in our cities.
