Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression

Re:Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depres... by fastasucan on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:32PM (#46580353)

Dicipline and the ability to build good habits is out of the window for a lot of people due to different illnesses. You come across as trying to sell snake oil to people with a heart attack.

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Re:Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depres... by nradov on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:13PM (#46582021)

If you try hard enough you can always find a plausible sounding excuse for failure. Discipline and good habits are the most effective way to prevent heart attacks in the first place. While there are a tiny fraction of people with serious mental health conditions or developmental disabilities which prevent them from making progress, that hardly applies to anyone on HN.

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Re:Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depres... by Forgeties79 on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:35AM (#46588273)

No one is arguing efficacy. We’re talking about how overly simplistic “just do it” is. Life isn’t a Nike commercial.

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Re:Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depres... by fastasucan on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:30PM (#46595135)

Yes, prevents heart attack, but if you are in the middle of one?

>that hardly applies to anyone on HN.

Sweet summer child.

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