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130 upvotes, 8 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Gym. "This tracks."
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Anonymous 9w

*For mild to moderate depression

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Anonymous 9w

Exercise in general can be just as effective as just medicine alone for mild to moderate depression and can be helpful for severe depression but lesser effect. This does not mean you shouldn’t be seeing a therapist or on medication. Talk with ur doctor and add it to ur health plan. (I studied this)

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Anonymous 9w

Yeah fs growing muscle is really good for not wanting to off yourself (speaking for myself not others)

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Anonymous 9w

This is called preventative care. It's easily the most effective form of care without negative side effects (health wise)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Case I saw was severe. Took her about a year but the gym worked for her way better than any SSRI.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

One case is not enough to say there’s a correlation though …

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

It’s a data point. It might be an outlier but studying outliers we often find outstanding recipes for success.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

The problem with it taking a year before improvement for *severe* depression hits is that you might die. As mentioned below, exercise is great prevention and can be really helpful alongside other interventions like therapy in the study cases or by itself in mild cases, but one case does not mean that this is the best approach for everyone with severe mental illness and science has shown that to be the case.

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