The biggest improvement in my mental health was exercising three hours a day and eat stir fried vegetables and green yoghurt for desert everyday for six months. I got high the whole time too and still wound up in the healthiest mental space I’ve known for 20 years with a more positive outlook and material reality than ever before.
Exercising, eating right, drinking water, stop drinking too often, it might not cure 100% of your mental afflictions but goddamn it will help.
Well to provide context it was a period of depression and I wasn’t really seeing friends I was mostly just getting stoned and watching YouTube in the background while reading.
So instead of reading books and YouTubing for 6 hours a day I started riding my bike and after maybe a month of that I 80% cured my depression.
Also I started eating right mostly by buying those frozen bags of ready to cook meals that are mostly vegetables in some kind of sauce (Trader Joe’s style frozen bags) which are cheap tasty and relatively healthy.
Now I’m trying to get myself to do weights.
I wish I started living like this in my early 20s it is the way.
I see it like exercise, good sleep, good food, having enough income / material means to have a good outlook are a good base, but some kind of reflection and therapy and or the complementary usage of medication are what can change our trajectory for the future quite a bit. Yet I wish therapy was as effective as soaps and sit coms do make it look like.
Yeah for sure you are absolutely correct. I don’t at all mean to undermine the importance of therapy and I know first hand how debilitating mental health issues like depression and anxiety can be.
You’re completely correct about the importance if therapy and pills of required, it just bothers me when people dismiss exercise with the “thanks I’m cured” response because even if it’s not a cure, it absolutely DOES help and it helps a lot.
Eat right, drink plenty of water, exercise, get some vitamin D… it’s going to make a big difference.
Edit sorry to be clear I’m not arguing with you xD I’m just ranting
Totally. My therapist ended up telling me how exercise helps a great lot with sadness and anxiety.
My social anxiety is not the same it was when I started the sessions and is now time to take "another step". I'm just "mustering" my strength to start the gym.
Thank you for sharing your experience, it means a lot.
The biggest improvement in my mental health was exercising three hours a day and eat stir fried vegetables and green yoghurt for desert everyday for six months. I got high the whole time too and still wound up in the healthiest mental space I’ve known for 20 years with a more positive outlook and material reality than ever before.
Exercising, eating right, drinking water, stop drinking too often, it might not cure 100% of your mental afflictions but goddamn it will help.
Three hours a day, gods above. I admire your commitment
Well to provide context it was a period of depression and I wasn’t really seeing friends I was mostly just getting stoned and watching YouTube in the background while reading.
So instead of reading books and YouTubing for 6 hours a day I started riding my bike and after maybe a month of that I 80% cured my depression.
Also I started eating right mostly by buying those frozen bags of ready to cook meals that are mostly vegetables in some kind of sauce (Trader Joe’s style frozen bags) which are cheap tasty and relatively healthy.
Now I’m trying to get myself to do weights.
I wish I started living like this in my early 20s it is the way.
You know what, I'm gonna do that too. Thanks for the inspiration 💪
Hell yeah comrade, glad you found something that works for you
I see it like exercise, good sleep, good food, having enough income / material means to have a good outlook are a good base, but some kind of reflection and therapy and or the complementary usage of medication are what can change our trajectory for the future quite a bit. Yet I wish therapy was as effective as soaps and sit coms do make it look like.
Yeah for sure you are absolutely correct. I don’t at all mean to undermine the importance of therapy and I know first hand how debilitating mental health issues like depression and anxiety can be.
You’re completely correct about the importance if therapy and pills of required, it just bothers me when people dismiss exercise with the “thanks I’m cured” response because even if it’s not a cure, it absolutely DOES help and it helps a lot.
Eat right, drink plenty of water, exercise, get some vitamin D… it’s going to make a big difference.
Edit sorry to be clear I’m not arguing with you xD I’m just ranting
Yeah didn't read it as arguing neither
Totally. My therapist ended up telling me how exercise helps a great lot with sadness and anxiety.
My social anxiety is not the same it was when I started the sessions and is now time to take "another step". I'm just "mustering" my strength to start the gym.
Thank you for sharing your experience, it means a lot.