A study in the Journal of Affective Disorders reveals that moderate and vigorous physical activities reduce certain depressive symptoms, especially anhedonia and fatigue, but not others like suicidal thoughts or sleep issues.
Glad the other commenter pointed out the correlation can causation aspect. Personally and anecdotally, I remember being in the DEPTHS of a depression, taking every ounce of what I had to drag myself to the doctor, jsut for the doctor to tell me I just need a half hour of vigorous exercise a day and I’ll be fine. Lady, I don’t want to live let alone get out of bed. In what world do you think I’m going to get a vigorous anything in.
I almost went to see a doctor in early 2020 (cue but then the funniest thing happened). Lots of issues/complexity there too esp. carless in a lower density USA, guess I’ll wait until there are autodocs or doctor worms or something that doesn’t need forms/questions/multiple visits/uncertainty etc.
Last year I got the cheapest+lightest ebike with gears that I could find. I went 131 miles on the trail (that’s with 250w assist, usually PAS 1 or 2) until the trail shut down a few months after I got it (as mentioned elsewhere). I had noticed some effect even by mile 100 (easier riding mostly, anything else is too nebulous to judge), but being so long without activity and I probably lost all benefit and then some.
Glad the other commenter pointed out the correlation can causation aspect. Personally and anecdotally, I remember being in the DEPTHS of a depression, taking every ounce of what I had to drag myself to the doctor, jsut for the doctor to tell me I just need a half hour of vigorous exercise a day and I’ll be fine. Lady, I don’t want to live let alone get out of bed. In what world do you think I’m going to get a vigorous anything in.
And following up on that. Though this study may be new, this relationship is not and is well known.
I almost went to see a doctor in early 2020 (cue but then the funniest thing happened). Lots of issues/complexity there too esp. carless in a lower density USA, guess I’ll wait until there are autodocs or doctor worms or something that doesn’t need forms/questions/multiple visits/uncertainty etc.
Last year I got the cheapest+lightest ebike with gears that I could find. I went 131 miles on the trail (that’s with 250w assist, usually PAS 1 or 2) until the trail shut down a few months after I got it (as mentioned elsewhere). I had noticed some effect even by mile 100 (easier riding mostly, anything else is too nebulous to judge), but being so long without activity and I probably lost all benefit and then some.