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I wonder how this compares to taking cold showers, which I believe studies have shown can be effective, but I don’t know the rate at which it can be effective.

• BoredPositron 2y ago
  citation needed.
• nick__m 2y ago
  I have no information on the effectiveness of cold showers and depression but when I was clinically depressed I would not have had the will and energy to take a cold shower. Physical exercise is also reported to alleviate or reduce depression symptoms but when depression hits, physical exercise gets almost impossible to self initiate. That a problem with "active"¹ depression treatment. 1- In opposition to passive treatments like drugs or devices, not in opposition with inactive or placebo
  • Rinzler89 2y ago
    >physical exercise gets almost impossible to self initiate. This. The only solution I found is to force yourself to "just do it" first thing you get out of bed, no matter how much you feel mentally you can't do it. No checking phone, no opening the laptop, no making coffee, no eating breakfast, no staring out the window. Once you remove or block any other potential distraction, there's only one thing left you can do to get on with your day, which is to grab those dumbbells sitting on the yoga mat and get at it. It has to be my number one priority when I wake up, otherwise it falls down the list of responsibilities over the day and then never gets done.
• newzisforsukas 2y ago
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=tdcs+depression&filter=pubt.randomizedcontrolledtrial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=tdcs+depression&filter... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cold+shower+depression&filter=pubt.randomizedcontrolledtrial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cold+shower+depression...
  • hackernewds 2y ago
    Cold showers are basically no incremental cost, so why go research them? :(