Struggling with low mood and the pain of grief, Catherine Renton went to see her GP. He surprised her by delivering a prescription for time in nature. In a first-person piece for Processing, a FrameOfMind series, she shares how this saved her life.
. I carved out chunks of weekend time to be in nature and fully take in my surroundings rather than watching the world go by from a bus window.
Locked down with my elderly father, our world became very small. Then one day, vegetable plants Dad had ordered for his allotment pre-Covid started arriving. But Dad was struggling with a back injury and on the verge of giving up gardening, so I offered to help. I had no idea what I was doing or that I was about to develop an emotional and meaningful connection to a little plot of land.I’d visited the allotment before but was never keen on mucking in.
When I revisited the GP in the autumn of 2020, I was bursting with tales from the allotment. Pictures of misshapen potatoes and wonky carrots filled my camera roll. My face, ordinarily pale, had a glow about it. I surprised myself by saying I wanted to reduce my dose of antidepressants. My doctor didn’t even try to hide his smile.
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