Whilst i've never been on medication thus perhaps do not have the right to say whether it works or not, I have chosen not to take medicine because I simply don't want it.I am aware that as the ages have progressed drugs which may have altered personalities in the past no longer has the same side effect and so on, but it isn't enough to make me want to go to the doctors and ask for some tablets.I do believe however that for those currently on medication there could be measures to check dosage more frequently in some individual cases, in the papers you hear so often stories of people ending up addicted or indeed it just simply isn't working.

I've not been to the doctors about my depression recently, perhaps if I was a 'normal' person I would but I choose not to. I was kind of forced into it when I was first experiencing it when I was young because my mum was worried about my self harm and the doctor simply said 'would you like medication? would you like counselling?" and that was it. I wanted neither but no doubt he made a not of it and it's in the records which i'm a bit dubious about since mental health can be a taboo area for some still these days.

It was only until recent years I have come across the idea of 'nature/eco therapy', it was from going on walks more often I found that for reasons that I couldn't quite understand myself I felt much more energetic and spirited about life in general that I played around with the term on google to then come across a certain site which made me think there is a lot more too it and more could be done to research into this and how it can be given as another option along with other not so typical routes.

Reasons why I find being outside in nature theraputic –
1. If I can just sit/stand still in some woods for 5 minutes and listen to the birds and wind I already feel better, there was some scientific fact about how it gives you an energy boost though I can't remember the exact detail.
2. I reconnect with nature, I know the seasons more and what to expect and see things that people have perhaps no knowledge of or have forgotten about. 
3. The wildlife, again I see things. Every time out you find something new so long as you look at nature in a certain way, just briskly walking around won't necessarily help you discover things. When you do see something, especially if it is something special like a bird that isn't so easy to see then you have the most ridiculous smile on your face and get such a buzz out of it.
4. There is a place nearby though i've not been there recently, it is an Anglo Saxon recreated village with hut houses in the middle of a forest basically and if you go into the mead hall with the fire in the middle of the room there is something special about it like going back to when ancestors would sit around a fire and talk and share stories and have more of a community feel about the place.
5. I do woodland clear ups, again this gives you a buzz when you're doing it and when you're finished. Although you will be pissed off with what you find dumped and want to rant and rant about it hahah.