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[auroracloud]

I just want to share this because I think it's important and more people could benefit from reading it.

Depression-Busting Exercise Tips for People Too Depressed to Exercise.

It talks about the difficulty of exercising when you're depressed, even though you very well know exercise is supposed to help with depression (and it does, I can say with experience, as does the writer of the article). The problem is that a lot of articles are written by people who don't realize how difficult the depression itself can make it to exercise, and the perfection-obsessed exercise cult of the current age isn't helping. But this article has a lot of tips helping at actually getting yourself to do it.

I quote: "The perfect exercise is anything that you will actually consider doing. The perfect body is a breathing one."

We don't get enough people saying that.

Do read the article if you think you could benefit from any advice on this, it's got practical advice by someone who knows what they're talking about. I've benefited a lot during the past half a year by finding a form of exercise that actually works for me so I want to do it instead of thinking I should, and adopting an "every little bit helps" approach rather than expecting myself to complete some big goals I feel I should have.

Comments

[navaan]

Thank you so much for linking this! It's exactly as you say that I know that exercise helps. And when I feel good it's easy enough to go to the fitness center and just do stuff. But when I am depressed even thinking about it makes it worse. Even thinking about all the sporty fitness nuts there makes it worse then :P So I go walking and hiking because I have someone who carefully coaxes me into it and because I have lunch break and a park near-by. But most people who give the exercise advise have no idea how hard it can be to just get up and go.

I really like the point the article makes about perfection and choosing activities for the right reasons.

[enkanowen.livejournal.com]

This is also really helpful for chronic fatigue. Exercise helps but omg trying to get out of be is so hard. Thank you for linking this!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I could really use it.

[tinny]

Awesome!

Someone on my dw-flist posted instructions for "bed yoga" a while back, and it suddenly occurred to me that I'd been doing that already - I just didn't count it as exercise.

I've since chosen to count it, and now I do it a lot more and with more motivation - win win!

[imagine-peace.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, between the depression and my being lazy, I don't know when I'll exercise. Though, walking I like, and it does make me feel pretty good.

[cookiegirl]

Thanks so much for this link <3