There are a lot of unusual hobbies that are good coping mechanisms for depression and/or anxiety. When I was a kid, I used to build rail-lines as well as scenery for my model train set. My Grandpa purchased it for me for Christmas one year as well as I used it always until I got to middle school. By that point I had a huge area of the basement devoted to my model building interest. Unfortunately, my depression got worse in my middle school as well as years love it does for all the people, as well as I needed to find better coping mechanisms. Although fishing as well as hiking were always some of my most number one outdoor activities, they required getting in the automobile as well as driving to another location. Unlike some people, I don’t live in a location where I can walk behind my home as well as go hiking in the woods or fishing on a lake, river, or canal. Instead, I started caring for decorative cacti as well as succulents. Every year I have to bring them indoors before the temperatures outside start to drop below 32 degrees fahrenheit. If they freeze for a few hours or longer, it can completely kill some of the cacti. Otherwise if temperatures stay above 32 degrees, the plants will simply go dormant while the two of us were in the winter. Aside from lower temperatures, there is less sunlight while the two of us were in the day. All of my ornamental cacti will suffer from getting skinny sections of growth if I don’t bring them indoors in the winter. This way they can stay sizzling from the indoor heat while being kept out of the sunlight enough to prevent the effect of etiolation on the plants.