How Working With Plants Cured My Anxiety

When the pandemic forced the world into lockdown, I sat plucking weeds from the garden beds, as content as the birds in the trees. I watched the nightly news with a level of detachment, seeing the world spiral into chaos as I stared out the window to a calm green pasture. I slept through the night without waking and without the help of any sleep aid, a first in possibly years. How is it that when everything around me was falling apart, I had never felt more together? Anxiety has plagued me since childhood, first in a general nervousness at change and sensory stimulation, and later as the more identifiable attacks that make you think you’re going to die. I had several causes of anxiety, but most triggers were either existential, sensory, or social. <a href="https://medium.com/psyche-insight/how-working-with-plants-cured-my-anxiety-b975ad2abdb4">Learn More</a>