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skull_bearer) wrote2017-05-10 02:13 pm
skull_bearer) wrote2017-05-10 02:13 pm
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Does exercise help your depression? People keep telling me I should exercise regularly (and eat bett
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haha! hahaha. ok. please believe that i hate telling you this and i wish it were not so, because it is INFURIATING when the garbagey unhelpful stuff everybody tells you turns out to be true. but the truth is that in my own, personal, not universal experience: physical exercise is the ONLY!!!! thing, medication included, that has reliably staved off episodes of severe depression. Or actually wait maybe “staved off” is the wrong term bc I don’t really understand causation/correlation. But the times when I was exercising regularly were the only times in my life when i have not fallen into pits of incapacitating blank sadness, and when i have been in those pits, the most reliable ladder OUT has been regularly forcing my body to move itself around.
THE PROBLEM OF COURSE is that one of the first symptoms of The Ol Depresh is that it becomes very difficult to do ANYTHING, much less put on like EIGHT OR MORE different clothes (sports bra, sports undapants, shorts, shirt, TWO socks, TWO shoes at minimum; POSSIBLY ALSO depending on weather conditions some kind of torso covering and/or headwear??) and go make physical efforts (which i hate when i’m depressed) which cause discomfort (which i hate when i’m depressed) to my body (which i hate when i’m depressed). and then you have to shower, which i hate EVEN WHEN I’M NOT DEPRESSED!
so i recommend the terry crews method, which is, “just go,” if you can. put on the stupid clothes and get your body out of the door. i will be right next to you, complaining.
haha! hahaha. ok. please believe that i hate telling you this and i wish it were not so, because it is INFURIATING when the garbagey unhelpful stuff everybody tells you turns out to be true. but the truth is that in my own, personal, not universal experience: physical exercise is the ONLY!!!! thing, medication included, that has reliably staved off episodes of severe depression. Or actually wait maybe “staved off” is the wrong term bc I don’t really understand causation/correlation. But the times when I was exercising regularly were the only times in my life when i have not fallen into pits of incapacitating blank sadness, and when i have been in those pits, the most reliable ladder OUT has been regularly forcing my body to move itself around.
THE PROBLEM OF COURSE is that one of the first symptoms of The Ol Depresh is that it becomes very difficult to do ANYTHING, much less put on like EIGHT OR MORE different clothes (sports bra, sports undapants, shorts, shirt, TWO socks, TWO shoes at minimum; POSSIBLY ALSO depending on weather conditions some kind of torso covering and/or headwear??) and go make physical efforts (which i hate when i’m depressed) which cause discomfort (which i hate when i’m depressed) to my body (which i hate when i’m depressed). and then you have to shower, which i hate EVEN WHEN I’M NOT DEPRESSED!
so i recommend the terry crews method, which is, “just go,” if you can. put on the stupid clothes and get your body out of the door. i will be right next to you, complaining.