Regular exercise makes you feel better, look better, and be able to do more things. The fact that half the thread is talking about how they’re too depressed to try exercising is really telling that they probably haven’t tried exercising.
Right, they are too depressed to try exercising, so they have not tried exercising. That is practically a tautology, so I am not sure what your point is.
I was walking every day for months on end. It did nothing for my mood. Not just casual walking, I was speed walking. My hear rate was pretty high while walking. It did nothing for me, so i lost all motivation
I personally love the feeling of exercising, so unless I am experiencing severe anhedonia—which has happened in the past when I was on a lower dosage of antidepressant—then it always bursts my mood while I am doing it, which provides significant motivation. However, exercise does nothing for my wife except to make her feel sweaty and unpleasant, so she feels no motivation to do it, and even though I understand this intellectually I still have trouble “getting” it.
Similar studies get reposted year after year because the results are valid. I didn’t start running regularly until the day I almost killed myself. I decided running would be good to help get that feeling out of my chest. It’s been fairly effective for years. I still get depressed, but it’s more mild.
It’s probably been at least 10 years since I’ve seen this, but there used to be a lot of idiots on forums, including Reddit, who would respond to posts about people being extremely depressed (like debating suicide) and they’d just say stupid shit like “have you tried exercise?”
Exercise certainly helps many people with depression but it is not a magic wand
The article is talking about mild depression and people act as if exercise is proposed as a cure for severe depression which renders you unable to do anything.
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Probably why it says mild in the title. Running regularly has certainly helped me and my mood.
Regular exercise makes you feel better, look better, and be able to do more things. The fact that half the thread is talking about how they’re too depressed to try exercising is really telling that they probably haven’t tried exercising.
Right, they are too depressed to try exercising, so they have not tried exercising. That is practically a tautology, so I am not sure what your point is.
I was walking every day for months on end. It did nothing for my mood. Not just casual walking, I was speed walking. My hear rate was pretty high while walking. It did nothing for me, so i lost all motivation
It’s funny how people can be so different.
I personally love the feeling of exercising, so unless I am experiencing severe anhedonia—which has happened in the past when I was on a lower dosage of antidepressant—then it always bursts my mood while I am doing it, which provides significant motivation. However, exercise does nothing for my wife except to make her feel sweaty and unpleasant, so she feels no motivation to do it, and even though I understand this intellectually I still have trouble “getting” it.
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Exercise helps me with my mild depression.
There’s no need to read this so cynically.
MILD doesn’t mean all. It may not work for you. It does work very well for some others.
Dealing with executive dysfunction? Try doing stuff!
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Similar studies get reposted year after year because the results are valid. I didn’t start running regularly until the day I almost killed myself. I decided running would be good to help get that feeling out of my chest. It’s been fairly effective for years. I still get depressed, but it’s more mild.
It’s probably been at least 10 years since I’ve seen this, but there used to be a lot of idiots on forums, including Reddit, who would respond to posts about people being extremely depressed (like debating suicide) and they’d just say stupid shit like “have you tried exercise?”
Exercise certainly helps many people with depression but it is not a magic wand
I mean here it’s basically the other way around.
The article is talking about mild depression and people act as if exercise is proposed as a cure for severe depression which renders you unable to do anything.
Yeah, bit of a discipline paradox.
I find what works for me is calling myself a pussy and/or a piece of shit and bully myself into it.
I always think I’m a piece of shit so that doesn’t help. Hating myself into action doesn’t work.
I don’t wanna admit it, but I kinda do this too.
It’s almost like you didn’t bother to read it