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Can there be anything more relaxing than sitting on the bank of a river, fishing, watching the water gently flow past, surrounded by wildlife and flowers and with the sun on your face?
And might this also be a treatment for depression and anxiety? The idea is not as strange as it sounds. In fact, fishing is being prescribed on the NHS. Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust is the first to pilot the scheme.
It is part of ‘social prescribing’, something which has become a buzzword in medicine. It aims to view patients holistically and encourage doctors to understand there are not just biological or psychological aspects to how someone becomes ill, but social factors too.