From personal experience, having dealt with MDD/bipolar^, I can attest that exercise does help. However, exercise alone is not always sufficient. Daily meditat

From personal experience, having dealt with MDD/bipolar^, I can attest that exercise does help. However, exercise alone is not always sufficient. Daily meditation sessions help tremendously. But the icing on the cake (pun intended) is, in the end, nutrition. Our body (and thus our mind) works with what we put inside it. In fact, our body is made exclusively of what we, or our mother, ingested in the past. There is no escaping that fact, and most people seem to ignore it every single day. Personally, switching to a zero-carb ketogenic diet has done wonders for my overall health and well-being, including mental health. I am of course very biased in affirming this, but I honestly think sugar and most other plant substances (except perhaps some fruits and their oils) are there to harm us. The phytotoxin defense hypothesis really resonates with my experience. ^: I have had recurrent depressive episodes throughout most of my life, and antidepressants make me manic, but I otherwise experience no "natural" mania, only a mild hypomania.