Exercise should be ‘core treatment’ for depression – study

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Exercise should be ‘core treatment’ for depression – study - Lemmy.World

Exercise should be a “core treatment” for people with depression, academics have said, after a new study suggested that some forms of exercise were just as good as therapy and even better than anti-depressants. Walking, jogging, yoga and strength training appeared to be more effective than other types of exercises, according to a major new analysis. And the more vigorous the exercise, the better, according to a research team led by academics in Australia. But even low intensity exercises such as walking and yoga had meaningful benefit. The effect of exercise appeared superior to antidepressants, according to the study which has been published in The BMJ. But when exercise was combined with antidepressants, this improved the effect of the drugs.

That’s lovely but as the article ticks away at the end pretty unrealistic.

When people experience more severe forms of depression simply offering exercise may not be completely helpful, for example, when someone is struggling to get out of bed let alone get to the gym.

That’s on them. They’d no different than them being to depressed to get up and take their medicine.

If exercise is the best treatment for depression, and someone refuses to exercise… well, enjoy depression I guess.

I hope you never experience crippling depression where it takes all your mental energy just to get out of bed and shower, where the thought of doing anything more is just too much.

Exercise is wonderful, and yes helps massively. But depression is a feedback loop. You know exercise (or going to therapy) will make you feel better, but depression stops you, so you start beating yourself up about how much of a worthless piece of shit stain person you are because it’s on you and you’re making your depression worse you can’t even fucking help yourself you lazy fucking cunt arse piece of shit fucker.

My take away from what you said was I was right. Lol, thanks for all that.

My takeaway is that your empathy and self-awareness are low. You seem to live in that magic threshold of “too dumb to be aware of your own dumb.”

But, truly, reading your posts… they come across as massively lacking awareness, cocksure, poorly written, and still convinced that discussion is a contest.

Try absorbing an idea instead of attempting (faultily) to disregard what others say, believe it or not… other people know things that can make you a better person.

Those were some great insults, I’m very impressed.

Thank you, I hope they’ll help your development. Everyone has potential for growth if they have the ability to open their mind. Some minds are accepting of new ideas and others are as armored as a pineapple skin.

Which is yours? Which do you want yours to be?

Just cause you said a lot of things doesn’t mean you’re right, lol.