how much do you think a good diet and exercise helps with depression and anxiety and mental health in General?
i suffer from major depression and have a anxiety disorder im currently getting help with cbt and anti depressants and feel i am on the road to recovery but there’s no way i would have been able to do it with out the help of medication, but im just wondering if you think a healthy diet and exercise helps a great deal in battling depression and anxiety and other mental health problems?
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hi sorry to hear your having a bad time i my self am recoving from depression and i dont think that anything will help unless you want to help yourself.so if you feel a healthy diet may help then do it personally im a comfort eater and i cant stick to a healthy diet choclate and cakes make me feel better
but of course it will be good for you and excersize is a must i dont mean go to the gym and start a hefty regime even just a walk to the shop is good for you, it get you out of the house im very guilty of just hiding away in the house wen im having a bad day! all i can say is do things that make you happy, like for me i turn the radio up and dance round like a loon, plan things to look forward to . you sound like your on your way to feeling better so take the time , doing it too fast will only result in a relapse belive me. and when that day does go from bad to worse its ok to go back to bed or whatever you feel like doing. i wish you all the best x
yes excersize will help alot.
hard to say exactly how much it will help but there is loads of research that says feeling your brain with healthy food and exercising regularly brings positive results for people with depression
eating well and exercising regularly is something we should all do anyway cos it keeps our insides healthy and reduces risk of all sorts of life-threatening illnesses
Of course a good diet and exercise helps.
But you have to know what a good diet really is.
If you’re eating very unhealthy right now, you might want to get on a strict diet for a month to get off all your cravings.
But after that, once a week you should have "cheat days" where you can eat whatever you want. This will keep you happy, and it will actually help keep the body’s metabolism.
And as far as exercise goes. I would try competing in a sport. If you get fixed on a goal, you wouldn’t really have time to be depressed, you know? But don’t make yourself want to throw up, because it might make your depression worse.
I am bipolar, and I went to my campus psychologist and he couldn’t offer me anything besides medication. I knew for a fact that I didn’t need medication, and I personally think that drugs of any kind are bad for your body. Now I’m pretty happy (with a down time here and there) and I’m really glad I didn’t listen to my psychologist.
"Exercise can improve symptoms of depression and anxiety. Even small amounts of exercise help."
"Research suggests that it may take at least 30 minutes of exercise a day for at least three to five days a week to significantly improve symptoms of depression. However, smaller amounts of activity — as little as 10 to 15 minutes at a time — have been shown to improve mood in the short term. "So, small bouts of exercise may be a great way to get started if it’s initially too difficult to do more," Dr. Vickers-Douglas says.
Just how exercise reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety isn’t fully understood. Researchers believe that exercise prompts changes in both mind and body.
Some evidence suggests that exercise postively affects the levels of certain mood-enhancing neurotransmitters in the brain. Exercise may also boost feel-good endorphins, release tension in muscles, help you sleep better and reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol. It also increases body temperature, which may have calming effects. All of these changes in your mind and body can improve such symptoms as sadness, anxiety, irritability, stress, fatigue, anger, self-doubt and hopelessness."
So yes, it does help a lot in improving and battling out the symptoms, but the bottom line still is, it isn’t the main cure.
Yes it does help.there are other things you can do as well.Do a little research on castor oil packs.Also try taking a high potency B- complex after breakfast every morning for energy.Eat lots of fresh fruit and veggies and drink 8 to 10 glasses of water each day.Eat lots of greens because it sounds like you could have a magnesium deficiency.a magnesium deficiency not only causes depression, it causes suicide in some people.
It helped me personally. Anxiety was a big problem for me, but exercising helped me feel better about myself, more confident, and more relaxed. I could feel my muscles aching because I used to feel so tense all the time, and my back killed because of my poor posture, but exercising helped me feel a lot better both physically and mentally.
The only problem is actually finding the will power to start exercising, which is very difficult if you are feeling depressed or anxious all of the time.
Glad you are feeling better.
Sorry to hear of your problem Dizzy – exercise should help you a lot – especially if you can run for longer than 20 minutes when natural endorphines kick in.
My wife suffered from depression for 10 years and in the last couple of years stopped the medication and tried hypnotherapy – it worked – I have my wife back again!!. She has now trained to be a hypnotherapist herself. Good luck.
Sometime too much idleness itself lead to physical and mental deterioration and again the contrary is also lead to same result. So therefore the best way to be healthy is in moderate.