The link between depression and fitness

[skylove4]

I gotta feeling these were two of the most depressed nikkas on earth at some point during both of their athletic primes.

 

[spacewraith]

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Some people just ain't right in the head, and there's nothing that can be done about that. Like Delonte West.

Even still, think about where some of these professional athletes who have struggled with depression would be at in life if they didn't focus on exercising and staying in shape. Competing. They could be in a much worser place.

I've seen it. Exercising can be a hobby, and hobbies are one of the main suggestions of what one should do If you are struggling with depression. Not to mention the mental benefits of eating properly.

 

[Braman]

This is why I can’t even lie it at this point …I’m anti-therapy. Not even so much about therapy itself, but how it’s held up like a cureall, overwhelmingly by women who’s brains are distorted to be anxious worriers to begin with. And on the topic at hand, as compared to men a ton more women don’t work out. At all. Even a lot of naturally skinny women don’t work out

I think it’s all related. Working out is a release. I sprained my ankle a few years ago and couldn’t work out and I could feel myself getting angrier and more agitated. Like all life’s issues were ‘sitting’ in my body with no release. That’s how and why I think women are wired like they are. Woekn are just as “evil” as men but have no physical release for it. But they are the ones who will tell men we doin it wrong and NEED therapy. Bih go run a block, eat right, and then holla at me. Therapy is 1 tool in the toolbox. Working out is another

It’s insulting to hear people talk that whoa is me talk and project sadness onto everybody else, ‘everyone has trauma, everyone is hurting, everyone needs therapy’. But if i said ‘everyone needs to do 20 dips and 10 burpees’ id be wrong

 

[Tunez]

How long is the emo stage tho

 

[Paper Boi]

what about depressed people who are in shape? what the coli’s answer then? stop watching porn? start cold approaching random women in wal-mart like papa pimp?

 

[jilla82]

I have really bad body dysmorphia from being made fun of a lot as a kid for being underweight

I miss 2 days in a row at the gym I start talking to myself like Smeagel and Gollum.

“You missed the gym? You look skinny and frail like a bytch!”



“I hit all my macros tho…I’m not listening!”

I have this but the fat kid version

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

that's like the third or fourth attempt at a comeback for him.

the condition he is living with is FOR LIFE, just like Kanye. all he can do is manage it and when he doesn't he hits rock bottom again and again. it's a perpetual cycle for everyone who is bi-polar.

 

[Heafcliffe]

The better you look, the better you feel and when people see that confidence, the attention is real.

Of course your health should be the main reason you stay fit though. Mental and physical. I went from being a heavy weight lifter benching reps with 315 lbs, to only running and calisthenic/body weight exercises and I’ve never felt better. Pretty sure I can still do bench reps with 315 lbs though. I feel and look leaner. Clothes fit better too.

I agree with this. In my younger days, I lifted heavy but, these days, I lean more towards body weight exercises, HIIT, toning etc. and I feel better. Leaner.

To not feel stuffed with less flexibility was the worst.

 

[Chip Skylark]

Exercise can help ease symptoms of acute anxiety and depression but isn’t a cure nor does it prevent the disorders.

 

[NSSVO]

Exercising isn't a cure. A lot of people gain weight due to depression.

 

[Wubzy]

Some of the biggest dudes are the most depressed. It helps a lot though no doubt. I feel WAY better now that I'm in great shape since I at least have security in my health and appearance

 

[buzzkill]

Working out, eating better, and joining some type of in person social group would alleviate a ton of peoples self imposed depression thru isolation. GO OUTSIDE.

Was going through a helluva rough patch this spring and summer because I lost a close family member. I was smoking weed like crazy and didn't feel like leaving the house just isolating myself. I signed up for bjj to get out of my funk and after 2 months im down to damn near my highschool weight and I'm feeling like myself again. I wholeheartedly agree with this. Sign up for martial arts brehs you'll make friends and get active

 

[Chip Skylark]

90 percent of serotonin is in the gut it effects ur mood so be careful what u eat stay out in the sun

This. Diet >>>>>

 

[MikelArteta]

attractive rich people battle depression and even commit suicide.