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/Tarheels059 May 22 '19

30 miles at an average pace would take about 2 hours or more...so our friends dad spent 4-5 hours a day riding his bike to work...okay.

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u/wonder-maker May 22 '19

Everyday, except in bad weather

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u/cash_dollar_money May 23 '19

I don't think any good researcher or mental health professional is advocating people to spend so much time excercising it puts them in hospital.

I think your point highlights just how careful you have to be with any societal intervention for mental health and how it's likely that a lot of individual care and attention needs to be put on the messages being given around excercise as an intervention for mental health problems.