Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
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Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
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Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
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Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#3How to solve most cases of depression, make sure to get all these (if you can):
- good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants
- regular exercise and outdoor time
- good sleep hygiene
- regular healthy social interactions
- eliminate environmental stressors (job/financial stress, relationship stress, noise pollution, etc)
Of course, not everyone can have everything and some of those aren't 100% under your control, but ultimately it becomes your responsibility to try fix them if you want your situation to improve, since nobody else will.
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#4"Exercise has at least a "moderate impact" on symptoms "compared with no treatment or a control intervention,"
I mean, yes, but we already knew this. So good that this is a finding that passes replication.
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#5I don't get what's new ?
It's a known fact that exercise and good lifestyle are good for the mental health. But isn't the inability to maintain a good lifestyle one of the first symptoms of depression ?
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#6Vague reports like these are how you get people who drag themselves by the feet to go to gym and sit on a machine or do a random set of jumping jacks on the sled track. Taking up a sport and making it part of your lifestyle will be much more beneficial than telling people to do "moderate level exercise" because most people don't even know what that means and will never enjoy it.
If you actually get into a sport there will be second order effects such as better diet and possibly finding others with interest in such activities as you will invest more time into it.
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#7How to solve most cases of depression, make sure to get all these (if you can): - good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants - regular exercise and outdoor time - good sleep hygiene - regular healthy social interactions - eliminate environmental stressors (job/financial stress, relationship stress, noise pollution, etc) Of course, not everyone can have everything and some of those aren't 100% under yo…
The trouble is, this reads like "Just don't be depressed", since this is almost effectively a list of (anti-) symptoms of depression.
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#8How to solve most cases of depression, make sure to get all these (if you can): - good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants - regular exercise and outdoor time - good sleep hygiene - regular healthy social interactions - eliminate environmental stressors (job/financial stress, relationship stress, noise pollution, etc) Of course, not everyone can have everything and some of those aren't 100% under yo…
> good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants
How does one get rid of the excitement of the expectation of eating chips or drinking cola etc?
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#9How to solve most cases of depression, make sure to get all these (if you can): - good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants - regular exercise and outdoor time - good sleep hygiene - regular healthy social interactions - eliminate environmental stressors (job/financial stress, relationship stress, noise pollution, etc) Of course, not everyone can have everything and some of those aren't 100% under yo…
The trouble is, this reads like "Just don't be depressed", since this is almost effectively a list of (anti-) symptoms of depression.
And the ones that aren't simply "don't be depressed" are a lottery for anyone, even those not suffering depression. In the US, current projections are for 300 new jobs per state per month this year. Even accounting for retirees and deaths, last I looked at the numbers, there have been 2M more new additions to the workforce (people turning 18) than there are new jobs for those new additions, all competing with the large unemployed and laid off populations.
It's similarly often not easy to solve relationship stressors or noise pollution.
Re: Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
#10How to solve most cases of depression, make sure to get all these (if you can): - good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants - regular exercise and outdoor time - good sleep hygiene - regular healthy social interactions - eliminate environmental stressors (job/financial stress, relationship stress, noise pollution, etc) Of course, not everyone can have everything and some of those aren't 100% under yo…
> good diet with no junk food, alcohol, drugs and stimulants How does one get rid of the excitement of the expectation of eating chips or drinking cola etc?
Hard?