Don’t drug your teen! Just send them outside.

The Great Outdoors & Mental Health

I’m suspect of the many maladies that the many mental health and child care providers and professionals are giving names to these days. Many of these maladies may even disappear with a change in outside stimuli. And by outside I mean outside in the purest form of the word; the great outdoors.

Science affirms the healing effect on mental health by simply going outside and engaging the elements and nature. But your digitally addicted child may need to be forced off his computer to do it.

Even one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, made this astute observation. Digging in the soil has a curative effect on mental illness. That’s something he recognized long before the computer age.

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