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Anecdotal but I did not exercise before and exercise did more than any medications did for pulling me up. It has made me truly believe that a healthy body can
by skellera 8y ago
Anecdotal but I did not exercise before and exercise did more than any medications did for pulling me up.
It has made me truly believe that a healthy body can help make a healthy mind.
- mpweiher 8y agoI find that good exercise (particularly in the evening) helps tremendously with sleep, and that really, really helps with everything else.
- slothtrop 8y agoI've had a similar experience, such that at my healthiest my depressive lows are nowhere near what they once were.
- keyle 8y agoI completely agree. I've always said that I go to the gym to keep sane.
- brokenmachine 8y agoAlso anecdotal but I get depressed when I can't exercise (usually because of injury, weather or sickness). The longer that lasts, the more depressed I get. It has a very noticeable effect on me, to the point that honestly I can't understand how people who don't exercise manage to stay above water.
- XalvinX 8y agoYou know walking is one of the best forms of exercise, right? Just take a walk.
- goldenkey 8y agoNormal walking is pretty inefficient at tearing muscle fibers or causing any kind of reactive stress response by the body. Low intensity exercise is just a calorie burn and a minor stretch, nothing more.
- XalvinX 8y agoLow intensity exercise increases the heart and breathing rate, helping the body get oxygen to its cells, get rid of toxins, and other benefits of increased circulation. These are all very important for the body and particularly the brain and all other organs.
- goldenkey 8y agoI agree with you. But consider the capacity of a healthy individual, now spending 30 minutes or more, focused on a single task. Doing low intensity excercise without doing anything else...is an utter shite use of valuable time. It's just a waste of time that could be spent getting the heart rate higher, the muscles full of blood, etc.. I agree that it's beneficial but barely. Low intensity is good for getting people who don't workout to start lifting their arses a bit. But it has hardly any substantial effects on a healthy individual as compared to lifting or sprinting or jogging.
- brokenmachine 8y agoI do a lot of exercise normally, it's when I'm injured that I get depressed. When I've been injured enough to not be doing other stuff, it's often an ankle or knee injury so I can't go for a nice walk either.
- XalvinX 8y agoSorry to hear that, friend. :-/