I know this is old, but I've referenced this article a few times now in conversation so thanks for writing it! What's weird for me is that I love exercising, and feel much better after doing it. On the other hand, most non-exercisers I know find exercise to be immensely painful, so it almost makes sense that exercise wouldn't cure their depression (if they were depressed), because you're just putting them in physical pain.
One thing I didn't get from these studies, what type of exercise are all of these studies doing? Is it the same exercise? Human bodies vary in response, so if you gave me a warm-up bike ride for a professional cyclist, I would be in immense pain, and would have to stop
What are the actual terms of this so-called “exercise”? Can anyone call anything exercise because they say so? There is no control for what these studies call exercise, this is not science. The same can be said of depression; How does one measure an emotion. How does one control for lying or bad faith? Saying “exercise” cures “depression” as dancing lowers sadness because you have used the sample size of a college classroom is not becoming of a scientist.
Your blog enumerates these cases but have you thought twice or even once about the truth? I could make a study about how many people say you have low IQ and as long as thirty participants say “Yes, Emil Kirkegaard spreads marxist lies on substack.” should I be taken seriously, even as the make-believe results align with reality like fiction emulates fact?
Exercise likely alleviates depression in *sedentary* people not because it fixes depression but because extreme inactivity and sloth are contributing factors to certain states of depression. “Depression”, also, is an ill defined complex of issues all with varying causes and treatments are hit and miss (No universal solution). Yes, the RWanon template advice is to eat well and exercise. It works only because contemporary man is in a state of physical disrepair. How does one overcome illness of mind if they have illness of body?
I know this is old, but I've referenced this article a few times now in conversation so thanks for writing it! What's weird for me is that I love exercising, and feel much better after doing it. On the other hand, most non-exercisers I know find exercise to be immensely painful, so it almost makes sense that exercise wouldn't cure their depression (if they were depressed), because you're just putting them in physical pain.
One thing I didn't get from these studies, what type of exercise are all of these studies doing? Is it the same exercise? Human bodies vary in response, so if you gave me a warm-up bike ride for a professional cyclist, I would be in immense pain, and would have to stop
What are the actual terms of this so-called “exercise”? Can anyone call anything exercise because they say so? There is no control for what these studies call exercise, this is not science. The same can be said of depression; How does one measure an emotion. How does one control for lying or bad faith? Saying “exercise” cures “depression” as dancing lowers sadness because you have used the sample size of a college classroom is not becoming of a scientist.
Your blog enumerates these cases but have you thought twice or even once about the truth? I could make a study about how many people say you have low IQ and as long as thirty participants say “Yes, Emil Kirkegaard spreads marxist lies on substack.” should I be taken seriously, even as the make-believe results align with reality like fiction emulates fact?
Stultus puer.
Exercise likely alleviates depression in *sedentary* people not because it fixes depression but because extreme inactivity and sloth are contributing factors to certain states of depression. “Depression”, also, is an ill defined complex of issues all with varying causes and treatments are hit and miss (No universal solution). Yes, the RWanon template advice is to eat well and exercise. It works only because contemporary man is in a state of physical disrepair. How does one overcome illness of mind if they have illness of body?