Quote Originally Posted by Joy View Post
Hi Bruno,

What a good idea. I like that you are going to pursue something like that. Maybe one day when I can get well enough I would consider what you are suggesting. I would never have thought about that on my own. thank you. Right now my partner and I are just starting out. We are renting here. It needs a lot of work to get it ready to be productive. It has sat unused for a couple of years but had been used for cattle. What is crazy is the little barn had broken glass all through it. Light bulbs, window panes and glass medication vials (hundreds of these) all thrown on the ground and in the cracks of the barn. There is glass outside in the pasture and I had been going out picking it up with a shovel and pieces when I find them. Broken glass panes under the manure. Who does this? Even the flood lights high up on poles have been shot out. The glass is found scattered below. So there is lots of work to do still. If we could get our health together we would love to add some fencing and let the pigs go free range. Get some chickens and make it a working farm. There is lots of land and if it were in an area that wasn't so remote it would be neat to allow others to plan a garden of their own on a patch. But where we are there would be no interest. There is so much land around.
To be honest, I have been begging my partner to consider moving. I can't stand the ticks here. I hadn't even been outside today and I have had two on me. At bedtime I found one biting the back of my knee...that just sends me flipping crazy. Plus not feeling well...I could throw in the towel any time. I would miss the horses mostly.
Bruno, I saw a program on t.v. last year. It was a documentary about a number of people living naturally. Some had bought farms and another fellow, who lives in Manitoba, had a piece of land and was cultivating a large garden but doing everything by hand and he lived in a tent. Then took the produce to town.
I wish I could remember more...it was so interesting to watch I would love to see it again. Except we don't have t.v. here., ha,ha.

Where do you live?
Joy
Hi Joy,

there are a few places around the world that offer help for people who are experiencing extreme states like anxiety, depression, and psychosis and I know three of them off the top of my head. I dont recall the names but one is in Sweden, one in Canada, and one in Ireleand. These places offer a place that is quiet, away from the city, and typically on a farm or something similar to a farm. You go there and basically heal by working the land, detoxing, rebuilding using nutrition, psychotherapy, and other holistic therapies. The one in Canada was started by a lady who was cured of Schizophrenia after receiving treatment by Abram Hoffer the orthomolecular psychiatrist. She only charges $75 a day and her approach is to cleanse and rebuild the body and I believe she lives in a rural area.

To me, there is no doubt that a simple life on a farm, close to nature, eating organic foods, and having meaningful work can be very healing. Of course, it could also be tough like having to deal with insect problems like you all and the work in general can be tough.

Anyways, I think I just have big dreams about a place to recover while going through withdrawal because this has been the hardest journey of my life. I am 19 months out and still struggling. I often am able to cope, but sometimes I want to give up, go live in the streets, or head to a commune.

I live in Texas...