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Surprisingly I've found some stigma attached to it - because people can get "preachy" about exercise I guess.
I've always thought the hard cure to depression was to rip the person completely away from their lifestyle and give them an entirely new, physically active job, witness security program style.
2. People with depression often have careers they care about and families they need to support. Even if leaving their lives behind worked, they wouldn't want to do that for the same reason you wouldn't.
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Why do we not treat this as an ill?
Much of it comes from the same place. Depression, ADHD, and many others affect our ability to concentrate and plan. When you are in those situations, long term doesn't matter - you are fighting to live in the short term. Part of using medication is helping to get those effects under control so that you can be forwarded looking and disciplined. Simply saying "exercise more" to someone struggling with mental health is…
Also, when fat people eat less they lose weight.
As with any intervention, the devil is in the details. The author doesn't really provide any.
If the fix was easy we wouldn't need doctors to provide it.
Just because a thing is true doesn't mean you can apply it. There are vast numbers of active ingredients discovered or developed that are effective in curing many deceases but there aren't "drugs"/pills with it because we haven't found a delivery mechanism for them to be effective where they should in the human body. Going back to the subject: Have you ever been clinically depressed or dealt with people in that predi…
See also: "Why don't more people with ADHD get treatment?" "Because if they were able to initiate and follow through a complex plan of meeting with care providers, arguing with insurance, and having prescriptions filled, they probably wouldn't need it."
In any case, I'm not exactly up to date on the state of the art in terms of standard of care, but as far as I understood the role of a psychiatrist, it is specifically to write prescriptions. Exercise is not a controlled substance. You don't need a prescription to do it. Any doctor or even just a clinical therapist, counselor, anyone with a license to listen to you and make recommendations, can recommend exercise. And I'm sure they do. If you make it to a psychiatrist, it's because the less controlled options didn't do the trick.
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A lot of us are concerned about more than objecting to GLP-1’s. They’re pretty aggressive as a “treatment” used for weight loss, TONS of people are on it, it’s aggressively marketed in ways that seem rather backwards with what we’ve learned about how to talk about bodies and weight, and we are already seeing concerning GI issues emerging from prolonged usage - which is a given unless someone makes a lifestyle change,…
> we are already seeing concerning GI issues emerging from prolonged usage Could you elaborate? I have been looking for a scientific discussion on that topic and coming up with not much.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10213739/
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(25)...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551568/