Have heard a fair few people say that-??
Question: -exercise and a good diet will go along way in helping someone to be relieved of their depression symptoms.
Have people tried this and found a good diet and exercise to help ease their own depression?
If so, is it possible to come off the anti-depressants, or would they still be needed?
Answers: Exercise and a good diet will help your depression, but it all depends on your body's chemistry. I have found that it helps my depression, but if I don't exercise regularly I can get pretty depressed. It's not a guaranteed cure for depression, it just helps. I would not come off of you anti-depressants without consent from your doctor, but you should talk to him about it and see if you could experiment with going off of it and trying exercise/new diet. That way you can update him with your condition and see if it's an effective way to keep your depression low.
(The reason why exercise helps is because when you exercise, your body releases endophines, which cause happy feelings. It's like a natural high.)
Good luck with everything.
Excercise actually stimulates brain cells, and releases a chemical in your brain called saratonin, which make you feel happy. Much like eating chocolate. And it also makes you feel like you doing something good for yourself.
It is true, if you look at the science. Most people don't require antidepressant therapy long term. Remember, for the vast majority of depression sufferers, depression is not a chronic or even reoccuring illness. Adding proper therapy, something like CBT and a healthy diet and exercise routine (something CBT does call for) increases your chances of recovering from your depression and decreases your chances of a relapse after therapy, including drug therapy has stopped.
Those who do not go to therapy or include diet and exercise as part of their depression treatment have a higher incidence of relapse after stopping medication and are more likely to be long term antidepressant users.
Depends on how severe the depression is - if it is more situational than biological, then yes exercise and proper diet along with perhaps some talk therapy could replace medication. If it is brain chemistry and chronic, then long-term medication is probably needed. But even still, exercise and diet will make it that much better, and perhaps lower doses of medication would be needed.
It is only my personal opinion
but
I believe that in addition to gym type exercises
walking jogging or even speed walking
specifically out in nature
such as a park if you are not out in the country
is excellent to ward off depressions
The woman I know worked with a doctor who said she cant take anti-depressants for too long. She would walk vigorously for 15 min then amble around easily for 10 min then again steady and deliberately for 5 more minutes
that was a couple years ago
now all she does is ti-chi
Have people tried this and found a good diet and exercise to help ease their own depression?
If so, is it possible to come off the anti-depressants, or would they still be needed?
Answers: Exercise and a good diet will help your depression, but it all depends on your body's chemistry. I have found that it helps my depression, but if I don't exercise regularly I can get pretty depressed. It's not a guaranteed cure for depression, it just helps. I would not come off of you anti-depressants without consent from your doctor, but you should talk to him about it and see if you could experiment with going off of it and trying exercise/new diet. That way you can update him with your condition and see if it's an effective way to keep your depression low.
(The reason why exercise helps is because when you exercise, your body releases endophines, which cause happy feelings. It's like a natural high.)
Good luck with everything.
Excercise actually stimulates brain cells, and releases a chemical in your brain called saratonin, which make you feel happy. Much like eating chocolate. And it also makes you feel like you doing something good for yourself.
It is true, if you look at the science. Most people don't require antidepressant therapy long term. Remember, for the vast majority of depression sufferers, depression is not a chronic or even reoccuring illness. Adding proper therapy, something like CBT and a healthy diet and exercise routine (something CBT does call for) increases your chances of recovering from your depression and decreases your chances of a relapse after therapy, including drug therapy has stopped.
Those who do not go to therapy or include diet and exercise as part of their depression treatment have a higher incidence of relapse after stopping medication and are more likely to be long term antidepressant users.
Depends on how severe the depression is - if it is more situational than biological, then yes exercise and proper diet along with perhaps some talk therapy could replace medication. If it is brain chemistry and chronic, then long-term medication is probably needed. But even still, exercise and diet will make it that much better, and perhaps lower doses of medication would be needed.
It is only my personal opinion
but
I believe that in addition to gym type exercises
walking jogging or even speed walking
specifically out in nature
such as a park if you are not out in the country
is excellent to ward off depressions
The woman I know worked with a doctor who said she cant take anti-depressants for too long. She would walk vigorously for 15 min then amble around easily for 10 min then again steady and deliberately for 5 more minutes
that was a couple years ago
now all she does is ti-chi
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