Exercise as intervention for depression
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
The issue with depression is fighting past the mechanism that keeps you from being motivated to do anything. I was depressed earlier this year, the days I would go exercise I felt better, but I could rarely find the motivation to go exercise, even if I told myself to, my body operated on its own and I stayed home
Bingo.
The point of exercise as an intervention is to set you up with positive reinforcement that you can do something and improve your condition and tolerance towards that activity.
However, it is still an intervention or a stop gap to depression. Get yourself evaluated with a therapist and see what they can do to help you with your journey of depression.
Realistically there is a switch between .5 seconds ago and now. Once it is flicked, which can happen at any point, the body and mind reset into a dreadful state. Repression brought to the forefront if that makes sense.
Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
When I do go to the gym, it does help with my depression. However eating like crap also helps with my depression 
I think with depression, there's a strong lack of motivation. Exercising, even a little a day, can help get you moving with positive inertia. That's why people in serious depression take a while to get out. They're not moving forward and it takes a lot to get them moving at all.
xXMASHERXx
Superstar
I'm bipolar and I completely subscribe to this. Exercise has been my method of keeping myself leveled. And while I agree that it can be hard to get your body to cooperate when you in a depressed state, I've gotten to the point where I just go to the gym without thinking too much about it.
cartierhoe
Veteran
Going to the gym def helped me get out of that feeling
Take It In Blood
Banned
My dikk gets hard when I see her speak on Rogans podcast
