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If exercise is making you vomit, I think you're doing it wrong. What did you have to do to get that reaction? Did you try backing off the intensity to a level

by rleigh 8y ago

If exercise is making you vomit, I think you're doing it wrong. What did you have to do to get that reaction? Did you try backing off the intensity to a level where you could simply cope and enjoy it?

tempguy9999 8y ago
> If exercise is making you vomit, I think you're doing it wrong. Good point. I'm interested in their answer on that. > [...] and enjoy it? Fuck me :) That was amusing! No offence but you really don't get it. Exercise in that state we use as a coping mechanism. I guess he, like me, overdid it hence the vomiting (just a guess though - love to hear the answer). There is no enjoying it because there's little if anything to enjoy if you're hurting inside. To repeat: exercise is a coping mechanism. It's not 'fun'.
- astura 8y ago
  Didn't overdo it or anything, if anything I underdid it, my workouts, depressed or not depressed, are not particularity intense and the depression takes the intensity down, since I'm feeling so shitty. Vomiting is simply my body's response to stress while disfunctioned by severe depression. During that timeframe, I was sitting in a room with coworkers discussing specifics of a project and that was just so completely overwhelming to me that I had to run out of the room and go vomit. Later that week I had to take an extended leave of absence from work because I could just no longer function at work.
astura 8y ago
Ah, yes, the very predicable "doing it wrong" comment. Honestly, what on Earth possesses you make such a comment? I'm wasn't "doing it wrong," its severe depression that causes such a reaction, not intensity. My workouts are never particularly intense anyways. That's depression - it causes profound disruptions in response to stimuli. Other innocuous things make me vomit too when severely depressed as well. It's called severe clinical depression. I mean, that's literally a diagnosis criteria, anhedonia - An inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable. I can exercise just fine when not depressed without vomiting or feeling like garbage. > Did you try backing off the intensity to a level where you could simply cope and enjoy it? This is the equivalent of suggesting to a depressed person that they should just try being happy.

by rleigh 8y ago

tempguy9999 8y ago

> If exercise is making you vomit, I think you're doing it wrong. Good point. I'm interested in their answer on that. > [...] and enjoy it? Fuck me :) That was amusing! No offence but you really don't get it. Exercise in that state we use as a coping mechanism. I guess he, like me, overdid it hence the vomiting (just a guess though - love to hear the answer). There is no enjoying it because there's little if anything to enjoy if you're hurting inside. To repeat: exercise is a coping mechanism. It's not 'fun'.

astura 8y ago
Didn't overdo it or anything, if anything I underdid it, my workouts, depressed or not depressed, are not particularity intense and the depression takes the intensity down, since I'm feeling so shitty. Vomiting is simply my body's response to stress while disfunctioned by severe depression. During that timeframe, I was sitting in a room with coworkers discussing specifics of a project and that was just so completely overwhelming to me that I had to run out of the room and go vomit. Later that week I had to take an extended leave of absence from work because I could just no longer function at work.

astura 8y ago

Ah, yes, the very predicable "doing it wrong" comment. Honestly, what on Earth possesses you make such a comment? I'm wasn't "doing it wrong," its severe depression that causes such a reaction, not intensity. My workouts are never particularly intense anyways. That's depression - it causes profound disruptions in response to stimuli. Other innocuous things make me vomit too when severely depressed as well. It's called severe clinical depression. I mean, that's literally a diagnosis criteria, anhedonia - An inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable. I can exercise just fine when not depressed without vomiting or feeling like garbage. > Did you try backing off the intensity to a level where you could simply cope and enjoy it? This is the equivalent of suggesting to a depressed person that they should just try being happy.