Dear, what you need to control your weight is to focus on your diet plan along with exercises. Diet has major impact on overall body mass. i will recommend you to take as much carbohydrates as you can. They are the real source of fats.

I have seen people who gave up their antidepressants for running end up in the hospital after having attempted suicide, some of whom did so after having attempted that advice after reading memes and posts on the internet about it. Depression and bipolar disorder are serious mental illnesses with fatal consequences. Telling people to not take their medication is dangerous at best, and lethal at worst.

Happiness in research refers more to a personality trait than to depression vs. non-depression, particularly in social psychology. It's not referring to a mood or mood disorder, typically. Unfortunately none of the articles you link provide empirical proof about clinical disorders. Don't get me wrong - some antidepressants are little better than placebo in some cases. However, many are exceptionally effective, particularly those that have come out in the past 10-15 years, and many give a majority of individuals a reasonable chance at being functional human beings with their use. Having said that, I'd be happy to consider any research that is empirical and peer-reviewed, as that is stuff I can pass along to clients if it has adequate validity.

Can exercise help mental health? Abso-freaking-lutely. It is very good especially for anxiety and ADHD. However, everyone I have treated with mental illness was never able to cease their medications.

The problem is that telling someone with clinical depression or bipolar disorder running and exercise will fix them is dismissive. That's like telling the obese women losing weight will make her pretty or fix her thyroid - it's fundamentally wrong. it's like saying to someone with cancer, hey, jog more and your cancer will go away. Mental illness is often caused by structural changes in the brain which alter how it uses neurotransmitters. In many cases, fitness and diet changes *can* cause drastic improvements, however they cannot often cure true depression. Additionally, more people than you might imagine have survived trauma, and no exercise can fix trauma because it's complex and has life-long consequences.

Can some people come off antidepressants with exercise and diet? Rare, but it happens. There have been captivating studies out of Israel about ketogenic diets and bipolar lability, however I would still not suggest people cease medications randomly, or that diet can prevent mental illness for everyone.

So absolutely, exercise. It's superb for the brain and body, but it is not a panacea that means you can give up antidepressants. A whole variety of factors cause that when it's able to occur.

Music. For me, music motivates me to move more. If you loved working out b4 work, you'll probably be better off trying to find ways to do that instead of trying to squeeze it in during your lunch break or after work where you might be tired.

You're lucky to have a gym at work, but finding time to use it can be a challenge, especially if you don't really feel like using it. I'm guessing you'll have to find little things you can do at work if you can't fit in a regular workout, like using the stairs to go up to your office. Parking at the back of the parking lot & walk at a brisk pace to the office. Get a kettle ball or a small weight & use it at your desk. etc, etc.

The little things, built up, might give you the motivation you seek to up your cardio game.

Good Luck

You lost serious cred in your implication that ANY cure would work for all of a population. Seriously? If you need meds then that means that depression medication works better than exercise period? REALLY? You aren't familiar with a bell curve? With means, modes, outliers?

Up until a few weeks ago I was taking medication for depression, I'm getting talk therapy (CBT primarily) biweekly for depression, I'm exercising as one piece of my fight against depression, I use light therapy for depression, I have aroma therapy tools that help maybe more with focus but still a little with depression, I use meditation for anxiety and depression, I make myself spend time in green space for depression (and ADD)... These are all tools. Nothing is 100% I'm very confident I will be on medication for my depression again, as far as I can tell this is going to be a lifetime battle. I will seek out and use all the tools I can find that might help me through this hell.

My explaining that I am motivated to exercise by the benefits that exercise provides to my fight against depression is not a personal attack on your use of antidepressant medications. My god.

Oh Sparklekitty - Weren't you the one who said you didn't have time to go look up sources for me when I asked you for your sources in an earlier discussion? (yes, actually, you were). But while I'm clearly a petty person who holds grudges, I also admire your desire for facts and sources - a trait I truly wished everyone shared!

So yes, if one Googles this the first source that comes up tends to be the one from the UK written in 2012 which is a meta study (a study of other studies for those reading this who aren't used to the terminology). Two important points in this study is that the act of simply prescribing exercise is not helpful to a depressed patient (because seriously - you're already depressed, being told you need to go do the exact opposite of what every cell of your body desires, sleeeeeep generally, often cruelly combined with insomnia, isn't exactly helpful) and the fact that you can't perform a double blind test with exercise because most of us can't be duped into "pretend" exercise where we (the patient) and they (the testers) are both unable to know if we were randomly placed in a group that actually performs "real" cardio exercise or a group that isn't actually achieving cardio effort. Valid points for sure! But there is more to my admittedly causally offered comment than the prescribing part or the validity of the scientifically constructed study.

There are reasons that non-profit, patient focused wellness dollars are being invested in exercise programs designed to combat depression and anxiety, mostly the finding of studies that show a correlation between cardio activity and Quality of Life improvements. In studies where one can't perform a double blind side to side analysis this is often as good as it's going to get.

The phrase I used was intended to relate this to pharmaceutical studies, which as I'm sure you are aware, require only a slight improvement in a few patients to be considered a general success. If a tested drug shows a perceived improvement that is just slightly better than a placebo, it's considered a viable option for treatment.

None the less, I will go back and edit my original post to clear up this travesty, because you did well in calling me out!

Here's a nice source that might motivate a reader to exercise - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160589