Depression and exercise... Do you think these two words may be related? According to research, our answer must be yes. The research news published in The New York Times dated 13.02.2019 is exactly on this subject. According to the research published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry; Running for at least 15 minutes a day or doing more strenuous exercise helps beat depression. In fact, another finding in the research is that when individuals who are genetically prone to depression do these exercises, their chances of becoming depressed are significantly reduced compared to those who do not do these exercises. By the way, not only running or doing a strenuous exercise, but also doing housework or just walking are among the factors that prevent depression. Here, of course, it was concluded that at least 1 hour is more effective than 15 minutes.
In addition, in the TED talk of famous neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki in 2011, she claims that exercise improves the cognitive capacities of the brain. In other words, according to Suzuki's research, regular exercise strengthens memory, facilitates learning, increases creativity and helps us concentrate better on work. In his research, he examined the hippocampus in the brains of the students of the class he taught. (The hippocampus is one of the most important regions in our brain for our cognitive skills, especially memory.) As a result, he found that there was an increase in new cells in the hippocampus (indicating learning) and that existing cells lived longer (providing information about long-term memory).
Let's try to combine the two studies I mentioned above. While Wendy Suzuki talks about the positive effects of exercise on the cognitive functions of the brain, the research in JAMA Psychiatry magazine expresses how successful exercise is in overcoming and preventing depression. When we look at it, according to the Cognitive Behavioral school, clients with depression, in addition to the physical symptoms of depression (such as insomnia, appetite problems), also feel themselves worthless and inadequate mentally. They think as if the whole world has collapsed around them and they have no strength to get up. These two studies we have show that; Clients with depression engage in physical activity, such as exercise, regularly and in a certain amount of time. If it does, a change in thought systems will be a more expected result.
Then what do we say? When we feel depressed, or when we are really depressed, we go out or do exercises at home instead of taking the remote control in our hands and sitting in front of the TV or feeling worse by watching people's happiness, most of which is fake, all day long. As the old saying goes, "There is abundance in action."
Come on, take action!
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