Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants

With the property values in Palo Alto, I almost expect a dude funded this study, just to boost a property value by a few million. Eg, one near Standford Hills or whatever.

(it does feel nice to walk in nature though)

There's a strange contradiction in the findings, even just those in the abstract. When they look across individuals and try to predict antidepressant use based on exposure to woodlands, they find higher use among those who live closer to woodlands. It's only when they look at individual trajectories that they see reduced antidepressant use lining up with periods where they lived closer to woodlands.

It's almost like the same type of people who use antidepressants also like to live near woodlands. And they get depressed when they don't live near woodlands.

My catchprase as of late: Everything is pulmonary.

Apropos of nothing.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/01.res.50.3.325