[lbo-talk] eco therapy

[B.]

So does a walk around one's desolate, vacated strip
mall environ, their urban slum, parking lot hell,
and/or past homeless urine-drenched men on the
sidewalk, etc., count as a "Green Walk" to help w/
depression? Or will they ensure depressed folks are
airlifted out into the countryside from such environs
to do the walking, then fly/bus them back home?

Sounds nice if you live in a rural area.

 
-B.

joanna wrote:

"COUNTRY walks can help reduce depression and raise
self-esteem according to new research, which has led
to calls for "ecotherapy" to become a recognised
treatment for people with mental health problems.

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=743252007

The study, titled Ecotherapy: the green agenda for
mental health, is the first looking at how 'green'
exercise specifically affects those 
suffering from depression."