Pick up a book: it may be just the answer to your depression
They figure in every second advertisement in magazines and newspapers aimed at doctors. Sometimes on their own, sometimes alongside a contrasting picture of a fraught woman. The fraught woman, all clenched hands and frowny face, is sometimes shot in close up and in black and white. She’s the Before. The wildflowers, in improbably varied colours, come into their own in the After photograph to the right. Same woman, this time in full colour, dancing through the daisies.
The fields to which the anti-depressant or tranquilliser transport this bothered woman never seem to have nettles or cowpats in them and even the daisies look as if they’ve been given a bit of a scrub.
