Interactions with plants and nature, both indoors and outdoors, provided some benefits, which were shown by reduced depression, anxiety.
Sept. 26, 2022 – Miriam Geiger, a 30-year-old Massachusetts-based legal editor, feels she has a relationship with plants, whether they are houseplants she tends in her living room or outdoor plants and herbs in her garden.
A recent study of 353 students, done during two semesters in 2020, found that most students reported severe COVID-19-related mental health issues, with high levels of depression and anxiety. But interactions with plants and nature, both indoors and outdoors, provided some benefits, which were shown by reduced depression, anxiety, and stress scores in the surveys completed by the students.
The physical act of working with plants can also “help with dexterity and physical health,” but just being out in nature is “beneficial as well.” She also talked to her plants. “I didn’t talk to my plants as if they were my ‘therapists’ or something like that, but rather I would talk to them a little bit – for example, ‘Oh, you look thirsty,’ if they needed some water, or ‘you look sad, let’s take care of this’ if they needed trimming.”
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