Exercise, Depression, and Anxiety: The Evidence

[Subhrajeet]

BELIEVE me exercise really helped me to overcome negativity, anxiety

[dr.karidouglas]

If you're watching this video and feeling like you're at the end of your rope, please know that you're not alone. It's okay to reach out for help, whether that's through therapy, medication, or just talking to a friend. It can be a long and difficult journey, but there is hope and healing on the other side. Thank you to the creator for sharing their story and shedding light on this important topic.

[aseelkhalaf]

Since i started working out I’ve stopped twice, both times I got mild anxiety, Excerise is the only answer

[anoshya]

I found that anxiety used to manifest around my stomach area.I started doing gym exercises which concentrated on this area and it’s helped greatly.Also, since going to the gym 6 days a week and doing cardiovascular exercises depression has lessened a lot..that’s my experience..the more intense exercise the less depression, anxiety and much better sleep..Please see a professional If you have very bad depression though

[tonyclifton]

This video was factually sound, direct and to the point... we need more of this

[valentiaortega]

Psilocybin containing mushrooms saved my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.

[Astranoire]

I've been lifting weights since 2019 and the fact that my body is in the best shape it has ever been gives me massive confidence boost, it helped me to overcome my social anxiety, I can also talk to girls and flirt way more easily.

[rjames]

Exercise has solved, if not all, most of the problems iv encountered in my life. By either clearing my mind inorder to find a solution, reducing compulsive thinking when I have a problem, to making me so tired I don't have the energy left to even see the problem as a problem. It WORKS! and have been for the last 10 years. If I'm stressed about anything or anybody, the gym becomes my best friend.

[ankushchugh]

Even the medication of anxiety and depression not works properly if u are not active in ur lifestyle..so exercise is very important while taking medication

[tbl]

The problem is we live in a world where we dont have to do much we are sitting at home and because of that we have more time to think about problems and the future and thats how depression and anxiety comes. So the people that work 24/7 and also exercise have less anxiety and depression

[kettlebellken]

it truly is the best "natural" medicine as we age and face the hills & valleys we encounter in life

[mathewjose]

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[firstset]

I went from antidepressants to exercise. Exercise won. The stress relieve is intense. Do it intensely, make sure you sweat a lot and get your heart rate up.

[bubbercakes]

I have bipolar depression and I will testify that exercise helps me tremendously with my depression symptoms! The hardest thing is to just get there but it gives you a great boost afterwards! You can meet nice people at the gym also!

[heany]

I seen psychologist all my life I've been in depression due to childhood events and I love psychology..I don't think anyone saying that exercise is all the answer because it's not, and I've been a bodybuilder all my life, I think they're saying that it helps a lot in some peoples cases like mine, I would sit and stare at a wall thinking...That's the killer "THINKING"..but when I go to the gym and listen to music it gives me a little peace for a short time and the main thing is I feel good about myself..That's better than nothing...and if it saves some people then it's worth saying .. peace ✌️

[kianoosh.]

Here is the problem, the average person (including me) when you say exercise, would directly think of the gym, which is associated with body ache and time. No way that sounds better than taking a pill, especially if the pill works for you.

As a community, if we change the definition of exercise to just anything that raises your heart rate above 100/ 20 min a day, everyone would be able to figure something cardio out at home and it will be easy to adhere to it daily.

This is literally one of those cases that the phrase "lowering the bar" means something positive.

[nigellegg]

Hello, have suffered anxiety and depression most of my life. Did lots of excercise in my 20s. Obsessively so. When sustained anxiety kicked in, I found I could excercise. My anxiety went through the roof. Muscle tension so bad, could hardly move afterwards. Didn't matter what excercise I did, would start out okay, after a few weeks, anxiety and tension always ended up going through roof. Switched to yoga for years, all types. Sometimes it helped, others it didn't. Latest breakdown 4 years ago. Very depressed. Started doing sun salutations every morning. Helped depression tremendously over time. A year or so ago, added swimming. Same thing happend, anxiety eventually went through roof, as before. Luckily had a fit bit. After a lifetime of experience, and fit bit, came to conclusion that I have to limit my effort. Had to reducing no of lengths swam in a session by half. I'm a bit ocd. Eventually, I stopped excerting myself excessively. After a session, if you suffer from anxiety, you need to feel relaxed and tired. If you feel buzzing, or great or wide awake, and on top of the world, you've over done it, and even though you feel great afterwards, next day you will pay for it. My terminology may be incorrect, but during excercise, you have to do it calmly. You can't afford to run in adrenaline/cortisol. You have to pay particular attention to not excepting yourself. Its very hard to discipline yourself to do this. You need your muscles to be fatigued after session. If you go for it, you are stessing yourself physically, thereby increasing your adrenaline/'cortisol levels. Keep doing it, and you end up a nervous wreck. This is why the study shows people's anxiety hasn't improved. It's because people are excepting themselves too much, they go beyond muscle fatigue, and run on adrenaline/cortisol. I can do 40 lengths of breastbone in 45 mins. I can keep going way beyond muscle fatigue, running on adrenaline/cortisol. I know do a very calm 20 lengths in same time period, with rests in between. My anxiety/tension is now much lower. I've accepted a mindset of exercising for mental well being, instead of fitness, trying to improve. I still find it very hard to get it right. It's so easy for my mind to race when exercising and try to hard. Mindfulness while exercising helps. Message is, don't go for the burn, or giddy joy from excepting yourself too much. The old folks you see slowly jogging have the right approach for mental wellbeing from anxiety.

[verydenise]

Exercise has immensely helped me with ocd and anxiety.

[hershchat]

I think the problem is “knowing the patient”. Medicine practiced by checklists, with patient as a subject upon which to practice, might be objective. It might work in cases where the cure is purely chemical. Say, trivial pain relief or fever mitigation. However, where the disorder extends to the mind, the doctor is as much a subject, and the remedy as much socio-cultural, as it is pharmacological. Trust, understanding, responsibility, routine, and validation have an interplay with motivation, moods, and mental health. A doctor who can build trust with a patient, and convey she understands him has a higher chance of affecting a cure with the same treatment.

[davidpaul-jett]

Mushrooms containing psilocybin saved my life. They aided my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quit illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would’ve become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.