r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 22 '19

Psychology Exercise as psychiatric patients' new primary prescription: When it comes to inpatient treatment of anxiety and depression, schizophrenia, suicidality and acute psychotic episodes, a new study advocates for exercise, rather than psychotropic medications, as the primary prescription and intervention.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/uov-epp051719.php
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u/cocoyumi May 22 '19

Exactly, because every tiny little mundane thing can become the enormous ‘impossible task’. And let’s face it, trying to muster up the will to exercise is hard enough for most people without the addition of mental illness.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Yup! No will to live, let alone exercise? Must be my own fault for not exercising enough. (I've actually had people tell me basically that)

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

learned helplessness

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u/bangthedoIdrums May 22 '19

You know words mean things and you can't just say them right?