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3. Exercise is always very very good...
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 12:30 AM
Jul 2013

DRs are beginning to realize it's as good as or better than most antidepressants. The key think though as you said is to go at it hard. A little stroll around the block will do nothing. You have to be drenched in sweat and exhausted by the end of it. I remember I used to do 40mins every day on the treadmill at a 10% incline. For other reasons that become too obsessive for me and I took it too far so I'm going to ease into that. Right now I'm doing long daily walks to clear my head, 11+ km or so. The combination of the adrenaline rush, the exhaustion, the muscle fatigue and more, there really is nothing better to stop your mind from racing and churning over bad shit.

Photography is helping me recently too! I'm feeling slightly better now. I'm just worried about losing this good forward momentum I've built up.

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