I can't speak to anxiety, but for depression, you're still going to wind up needing something in addition to exercise. Not because it's not helpful, but it's s

I can't speak to anxiety, but for depression, you're still going to wind up needing something in addition to exercise. Not because it's not helpful, but it's sort of like the case of the person who needed the exercise of "normal" walking with a brain implant bypassing his damage to recover enough to gain partial mobility with it turned off[1] - if the whole problem is "I cannot convince myself to do things", "force yourself to do this thing non-depressed people find hard" is a nonstarter as an initial treatment, after a certain point. Sure, one can argue that the correct way to do this is prevention, but that's somewhat like saying the best treatment for an infection is prevention - that's technically true, but you're still likely going to wind up with people needing an acute treatment sometimes. (This also gets into complicated territory rapidly with people with comorbid problems that preclude "more exercise" being a thing that their doctors would recommend...) [1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5