A new study has found that exercise is twice as effective at alleviating depression than taking anti-depressant drugs.
“Experts analysed 14,170 people with major depression disorder from 218 separate trials and ranked different forms of exercise by how effective they were at treating the condition compared with existing treatments,” reports the Telegraph.
Walking or jogging two to three times a week was the best way to improve mood, the researchers found, improving symptoms by 63 per cent, compared to taking SSRI drugs, which only produced a 26 per cent improvement (not to mention all the risks and side-effects).
The study found that “the benefits from exercise tended to be proportional to the intensity,” meaning the more intense the better.
Prescriptions of anti-depressants hit a new record in England last year, with a whopping 8.6 million people taking the drugs, over 14 per cent of the entire population.
“While walking and jogging were effective for both men and women, the study found that strength training was more effective for women and younger people, and yoga more effective for men and older people,” reports the newspaper.
The depression-industrial complex isn’t going to be happy about this one.
Regime culture constantly bombards us with the narrative that depression is inevitable, that everyone should constantly be talking about their “mental health” and that pharmaceutical drugs are more effective than living a healthy lifestyle.
Social media addiction has also fueled emotional incontinence and oversharing of feelings, leading to depression and anxiety being virtually glamorized.
Teenagers are increasingly being plied with anti-depressants despite the fact that in many cases, feeling a bit down and confused sometimes is a normal part of puberty.
In most cases, depression is circumstantial and rooted in a person’s bad lifestyle choices and their decision to wallow in their own self-pity, something that is encouraged by society.
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They’re not actually “antidepressants” but INHIBITORS. They chemically inhibit emotion, including emotional attachment. They act in a manner that renders the individual unable to actually connect with anything or anyone in their lives. They’re prescribed for depression (classification for deep sadness, with or without an identifiable cause), anxiety (the opposite of depression), for those who binge-eat (including those who snack without being hungry and those with bulimia), for those that want to stop smoking, and for a host of other “conditions”. The idea is to virtually eliminate all the swings in emotion (by chemically inhibiting the ability to feel emotions). This they call giving you an “even keel” and a chance to “work through it logically” (usually “aided” by talk therapy, regression therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy). But these are seldom effective and any perceived benefit is short-lived; meaning medications are constantly needing to be adjusted and therapy sessions are a perpetual requirement. Most people on antidepressants also report suffering from “brain fog” which slows their thinking (part of the making things an “even keel” they’re told) with severely diminished interest in participating in “community” including their spouse (those on antidepressants lose their sex drive), children, friends, or anything that gregarious humans normally associate with fulfillment, satisfaction or pleasure. They also report a “thickness” in their minds – like experiencing their lives detached (almost as if they were watching someone else’s life). And a known side effect is the inability to make new memories or to be able to think things through (deep, rational thinking and analysis). Combined, this disconnection from others, and from caring at all, increases suicidal and other harm and self-harm ideation – because they can’t think things through rationally, are no longer naturally abhorrent to the idea of killing themselves (or others) and don’t “care” about things… in other words “antidpressants” germinate psychopathic and sociopathic behaviors.
Getting your body to work properly, and giving yourself something to do- especially something that has a goal, have always been the successful way out of depression.
When I first read this headline I thought it was from the Babylon Bee.
I discovered this “revelation” 62 years ago when I was 14. My first real date dumped me the day before the big dance for a guy with a car. I cried and my Dad told me he would whip my arse if he caught me crying again and told me to go “run it off.” I did, running 20 laps around the school track (5 miles). Suddenly, things didn’t seem so bad. Those old school parenting methods worked pretty well and didn’t charge hourly fees nor prescribe dangerous chemicals that make your d*ck fall off. 😁 I still walk several miles every day and always feel better after each session. I would run if my old knees would permit it. 😒
Too bad we have lost sight of the knowledge from that time. and have to have an “expert” do a study to tell us what every kid knew 60 years ago.
This should come as no surprise. I’ve been through recurring depressions all my life and pretty much tried everything.
By far the best way to alleviate the worst of mental woes is falling back into caveman mode. Traditional hunter gather societies know of no mental illnesses, until they are forced to become civilized.
Exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthy and engage in positive (!) social interaction. I personally add meditation and time alone in nature to this mix.
What was good for us 100,000 years ago is still good for us today.
People believe that happiness is something you get when you either stop or start doing something, but it is a tide that waxes wanes throughout our lives.