Hobbies can improve your health – here are four tips for choosing one
From sea swimming to painting, doctors are ‘prescribing’ hobbies – but you don’t need a doctor’s note to get startedIn 2020, the year Amanda lost her mother, husband, job and pre-pandemic normalcy, she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. “My life was just spiraling down and down and down,” she says.To help with her symptoms, in addition to an antidepressant prescription, Amanda was given a “social prescription”: a referral to a non-medical, community-based activity, typically involving movement, nature, art or…
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