Exercise, Depression, and Anxiety: The Evidence 

BELIEVE me exercise really helped me to overcome negativity ,anxiety

If you're watching this video and feeling like you're at the end of your rope, please know that you're not alone. It's okay to reach out for help, whether that's through therapy, medication, or just talking to a friend. It can be a long and difficult journey, but there is hope and healing on the other side. Thank you to the creator for sharing their story and shedding light on this important topic.

Since i started working out I’ve stopped twice, both times I got mild anxiety, Excerise is the only answer

I found that anxiety used to manifest around my stomach area.I started doing gym exercises which concentrated on this area and it’s helped greatly.Also,since going to the gym 6 days a week and doing cardiovascular exercises depression has lessened a lot..that’s my experience..the more intense exercise the less depression,anxiety and much better sleep..Please see a professional If you have very bad depression though

This video was factually sound, direct and to the point... we need more of this

I've been lifting weights since 2019 and the fact that my body is in the best shape it has ever been gives me massive confidence boost, it helped me to overcome my social anxiety, I can also talk to girls and flirt way more easily.

Exercise has solved, if not all, most of the problems iv encountered in my life. By either clearing my mind inorder to find a solution, reducing compulsive thinking when I have a problem, to making me so tired I don't have the energy left to even see the problem as a problem. It WORKS! and have been for the last 10 years. If I'm stressed about anything or anybody, the gym becomes my best friend.

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The problem is we live in a world where we dont have to do much we are sitting at home and because of that we have more time to think about problems and the future and thats how depression and anxiety comes. So the people that work 24/7 and also exercise have less anxiety and depression

Even the medication of anxiety and depression not works properly if u are not active in ur lifestyle..so exercise is very important while taking medication

I went from antidepressants to exercise. Exercise won. The stress relieve is intense. Do it intensely, make sure you sweat a lot and get your heart rate up.

it truly is the best "natural" medicine as we age and face the hills & valleys we encounter in life

Here is the problem, the average person (including me) when you say exercise, would directly think of the gym, which is associated with body ache and time. No way that sounds better than taking a pill, especially if the pill works for you. As a community, if we change the definition of exercise to just anything that raises your heart rate above 100/ 20 min a day, everyone would be able to figure something cardio out at home and it will be easy to adhere to it daily. This is literally one of those cases that the phrase "lowering the bar" means something positive.

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I have bipolar depression and I will testify that exercise helps me tremendously with my depression symptoms! The hardest thing is to just get there but it gives you a great boost afterwards! You can meet nice people at the gym also!

I seen psychologist all my life I've been in depression due to childhood events and I love psychology..I don't think anyone saying that exercise is all the answer because it's not, and I've been a bodybuilder all my life, I think they're saying that it helps a lot in some peoples cases like mine, I would sit and stare at a wall thinking...That's the killer "THINKING"..but when I go to the gym and listen to music it gives me a little peace for a short time and the main thing is I feel good about myself..That's better than nothing...and if it saves some people then it's worth saying .. peace ✌️

Hello, have suffered anxiety and depression most of my life. Did lots of excercise in my 20s. Obsessively so. When sustained anxiety kicked in, I found I could excercise. My anxiety went through the roof. Muscle tension so bad, could hardly move afterwards. Didn't matter what excercise I did, would start out okay, after a few weeks, anxiety and tension always ended up going through roof. Switched to yoga for years, all types. Sometimes it helped, others it didn't. Latest breakdown 4 years ago. Very depressed. Started doing sun salutations every morning. Helped depression tremendously over time. A year or so ago, added swimming. Same thing happend, anxiety eventually went through roof, as before. Luckily had a fit bit. After a lifetime of experience, and fit bit, came to conclusion that I have to limit my effort. Had to reducing no of lengths swam in a session by half. I'm a bit ocd. Eventually, I stopped excerting myself excessively. After a session, if you suffer from anxiety, you need to feel relaxed and tired. If you feel buzzing, or great or wide awake, and on top of the world, you've over done it, and even though you feel great afterwards, next day you will pay for it. My terminology may be incorrect, but during excercise, you have to do it calmly. You can't afford to run in adrenaline/cortisol. You have to pay particular attention to not excepting yourself. Its very hard to discipline yourself to do this. You need your muscles to be fatigued after session. If you go for it, you are stessing yourself physically, thereby increasing your adrenaline/'cortisol levels. Keep doing it, and you end up a nervous wreck. This is why the study shows people's anxiety hasn't improved. It's because people are excepting themselves too much, they go beyond muscle fatigue, and run on adrenaline/cortisol. I can do 40 lengths of breastbone in 45 mins. I can keep going way beyond muscle fatigue, running on adrenaline/cortisol. I know do a very calm 20 lengths in same time period, with rests in between. My anxiety/tension is now much lower. I've accepted a mindset of exercising for mental well being, instead of fitness, trying to improve. I still find it very hard to get it right. It's so easy for my mind to race when exercising and try to hard. Mindfulness while exercising helps. Message is, don't go for the burn, or giddy joy from excepting yourself too much. The old folks you see slowly jogging have the right approach for mental wellbeing from anxiety.

When someone suffers from clinical depression not even exercise can help.. exercise is a tool but there’s so much more to it. Many tools can be use but each person is unique un their own way. There no unique answer to depression, the issue is getting to the root cause now that’s the million dollar answer

Great information! Thank u

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Can this help to get rid off ocd

I think the problem is “knowing the patient”. Medicine practiced by checklists, with patient as a subject upon which to practice, might be objective. It might work in cases where the cure is purely chemical. Say, trivial pain relief or fever mitigation. However, where the disorder extends to the mind, the doctor is as much a subject, and the remedy as much socio-cultural, as it is pharmacological. Trust, understanding, responsibility, routine, and validation have an interplay with motivation, moods, and mental health. A doctor who can build trust with a patient, and convey she understands him has a higher chance of affecting a cure with the same treatment.

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My depression and anxiety were crushing me med didn’t help. I started riding a recumbent trike 6 weeks ago and now I cannot understand why I ever felt as I did!

Exercise has immensely helped me with ocd and anxiety.

Don't forget to add, to much excersize without a rest day can make you irritable also.

iv been working out for a year now , and i deal with severe panic attacks that make me feel like i’m going to have a heart attack and sometimes when i’m working out i feel my panic coming on and i can’t tell if i’m having a heart attack. everytime i get my heart rate up i feel like my heart is gonna explode i’m 23 and my heart rate will go up to 170 sometimes when i work out

Is just a fact that we were meant to be moving everyday phisical fitness was a norm back in the days and people lived happier and this is why.

Anxiety it’s excess of energy not releasing, your body must be really tired of the workout you do in the gym, don’t eat lot of sugar, get rid of wheat, and trust me your anxiety it’s going at least 80% at least, also try to see only positive stuff in internet, yes it is a lot just look for it, thank me later ok you’re welcome kiddos.

If I don’t at least jog a mile most days of the week, my sleep suffers GREATLY, which in turn makes my depression MUCH worse. Even if you feel like crap, lace up your tennis shoes, do some light stretching, and just go for a jog. Don’t make a ton of goals and try to run 5 miles at a record pace- just go jog until you don’t feel like it anymore. Then, do it again the next day..: and again the next day. Eventually, you will realize how wonderful it really is. When I’m in one of my major “brain fog” depression episodes, a good run knocks out the cobwebs and helps (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot).

Any tips when Im feelinv anxious and weak, how can I force myself to start to workout? Thanks

Excercise makes me chest pump,amazed how fit the body can be at 55 ,I’m ,hopefully going to be fit going into my 60s ,it’s a real cool thing being fit at my age ,I love it and I love my training ,chest pump …..have u got one

I TRY OKEY!!! ALL MY LIFE I HAVE GONE TO EVERY FOOTBALL/SOCCER TRAINING I HAVE IN MY CLUB SINCE I WAS LITTLE. MOST OF THE MATCHES TO. NOW I CAN’T ANYMORE COZ I HAVE OUTDONE ME. I HOLD ALL MY FEELINGS IN TILL IT STARTED TO GET BIG ANXEITY ATTACKS INSIDE ME UNDER TRAINING BUT I HOLD EVEN THAT IT AND BROKE DOWN AT HOME SO I CHOULD NOT SHOWER, BRUSH MY TEETH, EAT OR GO TO SCHOOL THE DAY AFTER UNTILL IT GOT SO MASIVE THAT I COLLAPSESS ON THE FIELD UNDER A TRAINING AND NOW ON EVERY MATCH AND 90% OF THE TRAININGS. I HAVE NO ENERGI. I AM SO JELOUS OF PEOPLE AROUND ME AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO CAN GO TO THE GYM OR TRAININGS AND THEY SAY ”I feel so much better” and stuff. I HATE IT. I HATE IT!!! I HATE ALL THE ”exercise is good for mental health”. I’M SO JELOUS. SO GODDAMN F*ING JELOUS..... (I’m sorry my english)

Exercicing might not heal 100% but it's a game changer

I wonder if this still applies to bipolar

Didn’t workout yet today. I can’t tell u how stressed I feel.

I'm recovering from a surgery on my esophagus. My shoulders really hurt if I run or throw spears.

I recently bought a VR headset and have been playing beat saber. The game makes exercising so much fun. I could dance for an hour easily and sweat a lot. I was living a sedentary lifestyle before this. If you plan to play this game, remember to move your legs and hips like you are actually dancing. And don't flick your wrists.

I'm starting to get anxiety while working out do to over exhaust.

I am now going to go and exercise to remove my sadness de-buff.

Since I stopped going to the gym my anxiety has became worse… think I need to get back in the gym

I've found that exercise makes my anxiety worse if its aerobic, I feel OK after the exercise but in the morning I feel strong anxiety in the morning that I had that exercise

Why i feel anxious / stressed a day after soccer game?

The only thing the video forgot was to explain how you exercise if you are severely depressed?

Nice information! But still, my depression set in while I was doing excercise like running, cycling and workouts at least 4x a week which then made me stop doing it back then

People with higher sensitivity to anxiety finds it difficult to exercise as they are repulsive to sweat and increased heart rate. But exercise helps it a lot.

Does exercise daily prevent depression ??

Sir what I've noticed is that when I work out my anxiety levels go up followed by nervousness. Is it because of any kind of deficiency or what

Exercise and also some herbal extracts from planet ayurveda may also help keep depression and anxiety from coming back once you're feeling better.

Through the help of Dr. Jasper The Great Wizard i was able to see myself Normal again after facing Anxiousness for nearly half my life🙁💔

It depends you on how you do exercise because it also can backfire on you if you workout alot and you don’t rest enough it can be bad so you have to workout and get enough sleep 🛌

Can over exercising cause anxiety?

Which exercise is best for reducing anxiety or depression... Is it walking or running or aerobics or gymming or anything else?

It can be really incredibly challenging to get depressed people to move. They naturally tend to be exhausted and want to isolate which can since them into a lot of rumination. It can be challenging to get the average population to exercise how do get depressed and anxious people Inspired to exercise?

Don't know what to do. I m worried plz do help i have depression since 11 months. Have panic attacks anxiety taking medicine only help when stop anxiety and depression again start. Have blurrer vision, muscles contraction,headaches,dizziness.plz some body help if reading my comment. Be positively answer and help purpose. Allah bless you all

It is shown that exercise improve sleep quality. Maybe that’s the mechanism of action but human biology is very complicated.

I’m to depressed to exercise

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What kind of exercise is considered the best for anxiety/depression?

I work out every day cardio and weight lifting still depressed and anxious nothing fuking helps I do the small goal thing dnt help I always go back to feeling anxious and depressed BEEN STUCK FOR 2 MONTHS DOING NOTHING CANT THINK CANT FOCUS EXTREMELY IRRITATED I HATE MY SELF

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Pretty cool that Captain America is doing this

I need help. I started working out and gained muscle. But I still feel depressed. It's been 2 years and my depression is not going anywhere. I do feel good working out but I wish my depression also went away. I started working out because my friend suggested therapy. Therapy was so expensive. It's exclusively for the rich people. So I went to the gym. Gained muscles changed my body but it didn't fix my issues. People said gym fixes everything but unfortunately it didn't for me. I thought with a better body everything will be alright but it didn't happen. Is there a way to get rid of this ? I can't afford therapy as it's very expensive.

To everyone who's struggling right now, please know that JESUS LOVES YOU. HE DIED FOR YOU. He wants to help you and give you peace. Please surrender your burdens to Him and allow Him to move in your life. "Because he loves Me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges My Name. He will call on Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him." (Psalm 91:14-15) Please hold on to this bible verse because WHATEVER GOD SAYS, HE FULFILLS.

Overtraining is burnout of muscle

Generally, exercise is not the people's first choice in treating or preventing anything as fundamental as it is based on millions of years of humans evolutionary physiology. I've been working out since 14. Wrestling, Volleyball, Marines, and hour every morning on the elliptical. Take the stairs and walk to the grocery store. Anxiety, depression, what's that???? Give your body what its design for and what it wants; some sort of intense physical resistance

Mushrooms containing psilocybin saved my life. The aided my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quit illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.

See John Henning this is the good type of psychiatry.

Just then was the first time i self harmed in 2 years... my anxiety and depression has been escalating once again... its mainly school... ( ive tried counseling - its never worked ) I used to run but i stop because i have bad knees... Edit: what makes it worse is that i feel guilty for feeling guilty of feeling my emotions

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Through the help of Dr. Jasper The Great Wizard i was able to see myself Normal again after facing Anxiousness for nearly half my life🙁💔💔