How exercise can fight loneliness and depression

Walking just one more minute a day can have a positive impact on your mental health. Simply moving around the house can help fight loneliness and depression, according to the new book, “The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage.” The book's author, psychologist Kelly McGonigal, joins “CBS This Morning” with tips about how to add more movement to your life.

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[yousircantknow]

Been lonely and depressed for 20 years, exercise can only do so much.

[Genevapsychicmedium]

What a person eats also greatly contributes to mental health. I had battled for most of my life with BPD, severe depression and anxiety. Once I started putting more fresh foods in my body and less eating out. Switched from coffee to green tea I began to feel so much better. The full 180 happened when I discovered and started doing qigong. Once I combined movement I enjoyed and my diet I am a whole new person.

[beldonhuang]

Humans are born to move, be active and enjoy life. Especially today, and even more after Covid, a lot of us would find ourselves sitting in front of our desks and laptops for terribly long periods of time, and so now it has never ever been more important to move our bodies to stay healthy, live life and, of course, experience the joy that moving our bodies give to us

[et]

The target audience is; people who don't get out of bed.

[babbaruff]

Depression and loneliness can be fatal, i feel it a lot and feel so much for anyone going through it 💔

[dawnglianapachuau]

always good to hear the positive benefits of exercise.

[FleurPillager]

I wish that CBS would do a series about mental illness and treatment instead of "mental health" for normal people and wellness. Lots of people are dying because they are unaware that evidence-based treatments exist that can help them.

[이산-cb]

Nowadays people call loneliness and their incapability to improve their life (aka laziness) - depression.
A person with actual depression has no motivation to do anything and can’t enjoy anything. If you joke about it - you DONT HAVE DEPRESSION.

[KittySnicker]

Exercise does help! But it helps in conjunction with my anti anxiety meds. Before my meds, exercise’s good effects were very temporary.

[Tenshiarashi]

i would walk to work, to class, to stores. i have seen others walking. me and those people would still be depressed. i am in a deep depression for being told that i will no longer have a roof to be under. being active wont work on depression.

[shamika]

Im not social. I have a lot of difficulties understanding people. I live in a world that is perpetually foreign to me. All the little things people do dont make sense to me and I dont know what to do l

[ahmadfahmi]

this study will be one of the countermeasure to the new generation, with increasing mental health issues.

[Yugvijay]

Stay kind, it'll get better for everyone ❤️😊🤞

[JacobandJean]

I need to exercise 24/7 in order to beat my depression and that's impossible unfortunately, my back is already messed up

[Bentz]

BS. I’ve been fighting depression for some time. I exercise almost every day including long walks and weights. Still nothing

[emihle]

I walk for over an hour every weekday. Nothing.

[moviedude]

"Fatty Mc Fat fat" haha really think you missed the underlying spirt of the guest host in general and her thesis, in particular there Gayle

[aesop]

Do they get that it's different for every person. Some don't have the energy to move, some just need another solution.I haven't found mine yet.

[lesliemarie]

Of course it’s a book and marketing segment. Thought they were just giving New Years advice.

[babybutchie]

It doesn't help depressed world-class athletes though, does it?