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Has exercise helped your mental health? (pawb.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a simple question to those of you suffering from depression, anxiety or are just going through a tough time. Now or sometime in the past.

Have you tried exercising, and did it help? What kind, and how did it make you feel?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah I'm going through a stressful period of time at work and so I've decided to try and pick up running. I hate running. It's literal torture and I'm exhausted afterwards. And my feet hurt! I don't know how people are insane enough to like this. So now I get stress at work and torture outside of it lol. And I've skipped days and I feel bad about it (shooting for 3 or 4 days per week with a couch to 5k apps).

The only saving grace with running with me me so far are two things...

During the run, I don't have much mental energy to dedicate to work stress. Just running stress lol
Checking off the exercise days in the app is nice. I've tried to exercise on my own without an app and it's a lot harder to keep up or stay motivated.