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It is nothing like a broken leg. A broken leg has a clear understandable cause and a clear efficacious solution. Depression has neither. If "toughen up" means
by dreamdu5t 12y ago
It is nothing like a broken leg. A broken leg has a clear understandable cause and a clear efficacious solution. Depression has neither.
If "toughen up" means eating well and exercising, it may very well be just as effective as SSRIs: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291072/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291072/
In my anecdotal experience the link between lack of exercise, poor diet, and depression is very strong. Hopefully there is more research into this area, but the main issue with it is that depression and SB is methodologically weak. What counts as "depressed" and "sedentary behavior" are extremely open-ended. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174982 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174982
- IneffablePigeon 12y agoThe thing is, "toughen up" is not taken to mean that, particularly by someone who is depressed. It's taken to mean "stop complaining, there's nothing wrong with you", which can be very damaging for someone in an already unstable mental state.