Scientists have confirmed what city dwellers have long suspected: the pressure of city life is greater. Researchers have found that living in a crowded crowd affects the areas of the brain that deal with stress and emotions. This finding helps to explain why people born and raised in cities are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and schizophrenia than those who grew up in rural areas.
Past research shows that more exposure to green space can reduce stress, enhance physical fitness and reduce the risk of depression. The researchers scanned the brains of 32 healthy volunteers from urban and rural areas. Jens from the Douglas Institute of Mental Health in Quebec? Dr. Prusner participated in the study. He said: "Previous studies have shown that the probability of urban people suffering from anxiety is 265,438+0% higher than that of rural people, and the probability of these people suffering from emotional disorders is 39% higher than that of rural people." "In addition, people born and raised in cities are almost twice as likely to suffer from schizophrenia as rural people. These data are worrying. "
Some recent studies have also confirmed this. For example, it was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry 20 16 (The? A study in the British Journal of Psychiatry shows that people living in cities are 50% more likely to suffer from anxiety than rural people, and twice as likely to suffer from schizophrenia.
Besides stress, the close relationship between greening and mental illness is beyond our imagination.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) pointed out that the less green the community in childhood, the worse the mental health in adulthood, such as the increase of depression, which has nothing to do with whether the family has money.
Kristine Engemann, the author of this study and a big data researcher in the Department of Life Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark, and her colleagues measured the greening degree of one million Danes born between 1985-2003 from birth to 10 years old through Landsat. According to satellite data, the less green belts near home at the age of 0~ 10, the higher the possibility of mental illness after 10.
The specific reason is not clear, but it is probably related to the fact that greening can relieve stress, reduce air pollution and contact with nature can change the distribution of intestinal flora.
In addition, the relationship between commuting and depression can not be ignored.
Recent research in Britain also shows that commuting time exceeding 1 hour will not only increase the probability of depression, but also seriously affect the quality of sleep every night. And compared with people with short commuting time, personal health and work efficiency will be lower. The long journey, the mighty life, in the bitter wind and rain, we pursue happiness and accidentally become a high-risk group of depression.
After all, when we have to go to work with drowsiness, or when we are exhausted after a busy day, we have to squeeze into a tin can like sardines for an hour or two. Every day, everyone will collapse.
So, if you are like me and thousands of other big city drifters in Qian Qian, you might as well go to places like Garden Park to relax, and you can also channel and vent your feelings and negative emotions in time through exercise and meditation. After all, health is your own, and mental health is also a part of health.