Gardening can reduce depression and anxiety
Florida: Numerous studies have shown that spending time in the garden reduces stress and depression. However, there is now further evidence that gardening significantly reduces anxiety, depression and stress.
According to research, gardening is a process whose benefits are immediately apparent and for the first time the positive effects of this process are beginning to be felt. In this regard, the experts of the University of Florida spent twice a week gardening women. For this, 32 women between the ages of 26 and 49 were recruited and all the women were healthy.
Half of the women were engaged in gardening twice a week and the other half were engaged in painting. The two groups met twice a week and held events a total of eight times. The painting and gardening groups were then compared.
This is because both painting and gardening involve planning, creativity and physical activity. The medical and psychological effects of both are also evident. But later, when the women involved in both cases were examined, it was found that the gardening process proved to be more effective.
In both cases, the effects of depression, anxiety and confusion were less pronounced in horticultural women, but more research is needed. Although this is a very small study, the beneficial psychological effects of spending time in vegetables have been shown before.
That is why the field of therapeutic horticulture had become an important one in the nineteenth century and there is still more evidence of it.
