Redux ,eating well, and exercising
I am cross-posting only because I need to share with both groups as to how I am doing, since both my weight & my depression have been tied together for these past 3 years now…. It’s my 11th day on Redux, and I weighed myself yesterday while over at my mum’s for dinner (i refuse [...]
There is no such thing as Depression
All of you think that you depressed on this newsgroup – I have NEWS for you. All you need to do is get off of your lazy tushes and get some exercise. There is no need for medicine to make you feel better. All that will happen is that you will become addicted to it [...]
Fight depression, on YMCA treadmill
Two new studies on exercise and mood looked at questions of timing: one found that walking could begin reducing symptoms of depression faster than many drugs could; the other found that the mental benefits of exercise could end when the workouts did. In the first study, published last week in The British Journal of Sports [...]
Muscles over mind
My therapist says that depression is a disease of the brain, not a disease of the muscles. The muscles still work. So get up and work your muscles and do what ya gotta do. He says I can keep the house clean, and cook nutritious meals and do all of that other motherly stuff even [...]
Exercise may increase the concentration
Some scientists believe that exercise may increase the concentrations in the bloodstream (and therefore the brain) of the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine, as do certain antidepressant drugs. Indeed, in a recent study of clinically depressed 50- to 77-year-olds at Duke University Medical Center, researchers found that performing regular exercise compared favorably in reducing depression over [...]
Compulsive exercising
The first time I started, it was out of fear. I was exercising normally. And I woke up one day, and looked in the mirror, and felt the cold fingers of fear suffocating me. That night I did 3 tapes, instead of one. And the next night. And the next night. For 2 years. Required [...]
Exercising seems to be an upper for me
The exercise seems to be helping…I’ve been going to the club just about everyday for two weeks. There’s free babysitting for two hours at a time so I take the littlest one with me while the others are in school (School started August 5th here!) I’ve not lost any real weight yet…but I keep saying [...]
Drepression causes brittle bones
I caught a link in another group but didnt read it fully that depression has been linked to brittle bones? I am curious how depression can cause a loss of bone density? I am in no way worried it about myself–having had to have a bone density test once which was very favorable. I am [...]
Sticking to diet; not exercising yet
Sticking to my new diet is not difficult. I think i will succeed in losing weight slowly. The second part of my plan, exercising, will be a bit more difficult. Yesterday evening i was going to do some exercise, but there was an interesting movie on tv (“mercury rising”), so i ended up on the [...]
Fear of Sleep
I went through a long period – from preadolescence into my early 20′s – when I was afraid to sleep because I thought I’d never wake up. When I was 11, it was the atom bomb. Later, I thought I would die in my sleep. So I would put off going to sleep, and even [...]
Sleep pattern disruption
My sleep pattern is so srewed up I am up for 2 days and sleep for 12-18 after, has anyone else gone through anything remotely similar to this as I could use some advise on how to fix it, before I end up totally insane. What meds are you on? I found I was really [...]
Depression, sports and endorphins
How many of you guys practice any kind of regular sports? I heard that physical activity (exercise) stimulates our body to produce endorphins which are feel-good chemicals (natural morphin analogues). It is said that sports ameliorates the mood. I’ve been a lazy bum all my life but now after knowing about this (thanks again to [...]
