Healing the patients of depression through nature conservation

By Sagar Saud 

In this writing,  "Healing the patients of depression through nature conservation" I would like to suggest that there is a deeper connection between healing the patients of depression through the beauty of the nature and works of nature conservation.

We know that there is a healing power in nature. The beauty of nature attracts human beings. It fascinates, mesmerizes, enchants and enthralls the human heart and mind. The beauty of nature has the power to make human forget their problems, pains and agonies. On this basis, we can heal the patients of depression through the act of nature conservation, animal protection, and creative writing with nature. Healing depression through the work of nature conservation is possible to much extent. Governments and the concerned organizations must launch conservation programs. The patients of depression must be encouraged to join such programs.

Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at work and at home. 

In modern day world, due to economic, social, political, psychological and mental causes, millions of people in the world have become victim of depression. Betrayal from love, lack of care, loss of job, homelessness, fed up of the materialistic world, divorce, abuse of drugs and alcohol, unemployment, incurable diseases, civil war, displacement, refugee and social insecurity are some causes of depression. 

When youth are in climax of tension, they think life is nothing. In such storm of depression, the patients think that they have nothing to do with this world, they have nobody to live for and they have neither responsibility nor any love for others. They get addicted to drugs to get relief from depression. When such negative feeling dominates they commit suicide. 

Depression destroys the creative minds of youth. This has nurtured a negative trend of suicide, robbery, murdering, gang fight, looting, raping, and violence. This situation has brought disorder in the home, society, country and finally in the world. 

There are crimes and fraud cases where youths are found to have involved. Due to frustration, youth are heard to have hanged to death. Youth have indulged in alcohol and drugs. which is detrimental to our society and human civilization. 

As youth are the pillars of a nation and world, their generative power should be utilized rightly by the nations and the concerned. In a way, we are destroying our brighter future and in the other way, creating disorder and insecurity in the world. So it has become a vital issue for the states to settle down and use the creative force of youth to welfare works.

How does the act of nature conservation heal depression
Is there healing power in nature

As there is a deeper psychological relation between healing the patients of depression and beauty of nature, the act of enjoying and working with nature can arouse the longing for life in the patients of depression. Ultimately this emotion of desire for life can lead the patients of depression to healing process to much extent.

When tension tortures, then the patients want to get rid of pain. The patients want to forget their agonies, pains, pasts, causes of disease and rather want peacefulness. To make mind calm and constant, the patients have to forget the troubles and the causes of depression. And for this to happen, they have to divert their mind to somewhere/something else which can make them feel happy, calm and cool. 

So, we have to evoke the feeling of love and life in the patients. Their longing desire to live, to do something good, some social welfare work. They could value their life. The patients could love something that they can own and love with genuine care. 

They could forget the tension, pain and depression. Instead of it, they could create love, happiness, and peace. Here the patients must get out of the tension and divert the mind to such things that they could love wholeheartedly. Such things that they could love and care. 

Yes, the medicine for the patients of depression is to engage them in the nature conservation works like planting trees, cleaning rivers, protecting the animals and birds, community conservation programs, conservation awareness projects, volunteering, writing about the nature conservation and so on. When they are enthralled by the serenity and beauty of nature, they get relief from tension/pain. This way, they become calm and happy. 

We can promote the creative feelings of the patients. So, they should be advised to write literature, poems, stories, fiction, enjoy music or do some creative works like planting trees, cleaning rivers, conserving forest, protecting animals and birds which they can love. 

Thus, the patients begin to love their creative works. They love the plants they sow. The love the animals and birds they protect. They love the campaigns and programs they started. They try to forget the pain and divert the mind to their creative works.They want to live life for works. Gradually they go on loving life desire. 

The running beautiful rivers, green beautiful hills, birds and animals mesmerize their painful mind. They should be mobilized to plant trees, bird conservation and water resources preservation. 

When they plant a small tree and nurture it or when they devotedly work for conservation of birds, animals, and other natural things, they love them much and satisfied with them. They have a sense of belonging, love and care for their creative workings. They should be convinced that they have to live for the trees and plants that they have planted. Then they will love their conservation works like planting and saving tree, as their green beloved and Green children for whom they have to live for. 

They think that they have somebody for whom they have to live their life. It becomes their responsibility to care and protect the planted tress, cleaned rivers, protected jungles, and animals. They think that the trees that they have planted are their green children. 

These creative works become a new, peaceful, safer and happy world to live for. They divert their mind in such creative things. These works are small room for them to rest while they are in torture. Such creative works can refresh, fill ultimate spirit and joys within their world. This way, they can live life happily. 

For this to happen, national governments, social service and environmental conservation organizations, GOs, NGOs and INGOs must bring nature conservation programs for the patients of depression. 

As this home earth is suffering from deforestation, climate change, global warming, and problem of green house gas es emission, the act of conserving the nature is very essential. In such a situation, it is better to send the patients of depression to the conservation works. They will heartily love the nature conserving work. Nature will be a peaceful place to them to live their life. 

It will be beneficial in many ways. In one hand, We can arouse longing for life in the patients. We can save many lives and engage the patients in creative works. In the other hand, we can save forests, jungles, birds, animals, rivers and finally the earth. 

So, nature conserving programs must be launched targeting the patients of depression to cure them through nature and conservation works.