This is the "just decide to be happy" of treatments but with extra steps (like a jog).
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I hate when people tell depressed people to "just go work out." When I was struggling with depression, I could hardly get out of bed and put on a fresh change of clothes, and somehow, they thought that I'm going to go outside and go for a walk! They really need to start with something more realistic like telling them to finally go and brush their teeth, because that is a lot more doable for them, and that still feels good too.
I do recognize that exercise does help. I'm in a lot better place now and I exercise daily, but if you're asking a depressed person to do that, you might as well be talking to a rock. Also sometimes people are just really depressed, and even if they do exercise, it hardly helps, since exercise probably isn't fixing the root issue.
During my deepest depression I would go to the gym to lift weights because it was an invisible way to punish myself.
I'm curious, did that make you feel better or worse? I used to punish myself by slicing up my forearm and it did make me feel happy even though it was a terrible way to go about doing that.
In my years of depression, I was also in peak fitness. Like, hours of cardio a day level of fitness. Maybe it helped (I sure couldn't tell, but I would probably have been worse without it), and I imagine it helps a lot of people. But a lot of these reductive headlines are going to encourage the "just go outside or something" crowd to be even more dismissive of people with depression. Or people will see "core treatment" and think "instant cure treatment".
I am the same. I mean... Not anymore because I'm older and kind of lazy, but like.. Even when I was doing a ton, depression still existed.
BUT... different strokes for different folks, as they say. If it helps anyone at all, then good. Give it a go.
I actually just absolutely fucking hate exercising. I'd rather wash dishes for 2 hrs than run for 30 min.
Jokes on them! I can't get myself to exercise because I am depressed.
Right, I wonder if there's just a misunderstanding here and they're just asking people exercising if they're less depressed than when they weren't exercising and it's like, no shit they're feeling better if they weren't they wouldn't be out there exercising.
This is a meta analysis of 218 clinical trials, they would have been more controlled than that.
how about just like
MAKE THE WORLD LESS DEPRESSING
maybe that might help
Chicken and egg. Both things need to be done. The world is increasingly dangerous to human nature. We have built a system that is detrimental to our existence. That said, everyone needs to get off their asses and go outside and touch grass.
i live in the city, the grass has cigarette buds in it
Cosigning this, getting into the habit of working out every day has changed everything about my life for the better. I'm happier, more productive at work, more present for my friends and family at home and, counterintuitively, have a lot more energy with which to attack the day.
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