Self Medicating
I had a curious thought recently; you might call it a moment of
clarity, and something that makes me read my memories slightly differently.
Growing, gardening, tending the land for me is a form of therapy that helps me
look after my mental health. It struck me that as I come from a family of
gardeners, my clan have probably also been self-medicating, using
growing and nurturing as a way of maintaining equilibrium. As a child I
thought they were growing crops or making the garden look pleasing,
which they were, but all the time they may have also been doing what they
needed to do to tame the chattering monkeys.
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