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As someone who deals with serious mental health issues, I think the headline sends an erroneous message. Without exercise, I feel laconic and less motivated.
by __multiplex__ 4y ago
As someone who deals with serious mental health issues, I think the headline sends an erroneous message.
Without exercise, I feel laconic and less motivated.
Without medicine, I hallucinate and generally lose my groundedness in reality.
One is clearly more important/effective when managing my mental health.
- deaddneopets 4y agoyeah, the title is wrong. the study says exercise is more efficacious for depression than medicine. as if depression is the only mental illness.
- PaulHoule 4y agoIn the Freudian era they made a distinction between neurosis (which Freud thought emerged from the Oedipus Complex) and psychosis which was believed to be organic in origin. In the pharmaceutical age one would distinguish between common anxiety and depression which are treated primarily with SSRIs and related drugs, and ‘serious mental illness’ (bipolar + schizophrenia) which are treated with antipsychotic drugs of various sorts. Both are serious but the second particularly so. I’d advocate that anyone who is suffering from mental health problems use a combination of exercise, drugs, talk therapy plus an attempt to find meaning in spirituality, friends, creative activities, etc. Mental illness kills (I’ve lost many friends to it) and it is worth attacking with all the tools available.