Mental disorder in cities tied to reduced access to nature

                Reduced access to nature may be part of the reason why mental illnesses and mood disorders are more common in cities. There is enormous amount of diseases largely tied to our removal from the natural environment. The growing tension between the necessary role urban areas play in society and the debilitating aspects of cities that disconnect humans from the natural world. Mental illnesses and mood disorders are more common in urban areas, and while many factors share the blame, reduced access to nature is a contributing cause. City dwellers in dense urban areas have little or no contact with nature in their daily lives.