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I'd love to see a clinical trial on this. What's a suitable placebo for jumping out of a plane, I wonder?
Not sure I'd trust a parachute without proper testing.
Definitely, would do it regularly if not for my daughter. Cheapest therapy ever, ~$200. Everything in life gets the reset button. Just so happy to be ALIVE. I kissed the ground on my return, haha. A friend asked how long it lasts, personally was about two months, but there are still residual effects years later.
I'm not a fan of the clickbait title here. It trivializes depression. I think the only cure for depression is death. Too morbid? You manage depression with behavior and therapy. You can attempt to treat some of the symptoms with drugs. You can break out of a rut by trying new things. But curing depression... like once and for all? That's not realistic. "Sky diving helped me get out of a depressive episode," or "Skydi…
Skydivers suffer from depression too. It would be interesting to know if skydivers as a group are more or less depressed than non skydivers or people who skydive less frequently. Are the effects the same for someone with +1000 jumps or is it the change in environment/trying new things that is the key to stave off an episode?
To me (IANA...) this reads like 'Sky Diving relieved my anxiety which cause(s/d) my depression'.
I'd love to see a clinical trial on this. What's a suitable placebo for jumping out of a plane, I wonder?