The effects of exercise on mental illness
The video looks at how exercise affects mental health, specifically for the adult and elderly populations. An exercise physiologist, who is a part of the Stay Well program at St. Josephs’s Hospital, was interviewed to share his expertise on the benefits of exercise.
This video was made by McMaster students Ava Oliaei, Nour Eddin Garada and Nadia Butt in collaboration with the McMaster Demystifying Medicine Program.
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49 Comments
I think the length of the exercise is not important but the physical act of completing exercise on a daily habit is the key to changing your mental health.
View our short film on socializing and keeping active. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPF00iOWKuk
It's four wheel driving. You need to do four wheel driving when you have mental health. Or you end up in fights with people that want your stuff.
That’s it. After 6 years of meds, benzos, therapy and all that poisonous chemicals, today I start working out. This has got to work. This WILL work. I’m certain!! Big Pharma just wants to push their medications and silence the power of exercise, I’m sure of it.
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Very motivational and important, thank you
Lies; get exercise no doubt, but dont rely on it to lift you out from a very bad state of mind. Antidepressant meds DO work.
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I love your voice
I heard Mental illness give you beer effert
Since somedays I am suffering from mental stress due to phisical illness and study so what will be good solution for it? 🙏
9 aug 21
I had quit drinking and smoking coz it messed me up. I'm glad I found out the consequences. Just gonna focus on being both mentally and physically active
Exercise makes your head go funny. Abolish it!
Exactly what has been said in this video is really true and genuine
easier said than done, i thought. Til I discovered how to do #mindcardio. 3 step thought process for reprogramming pattern of thinking.
Life is all memory 💙💚
Don't be fooled this doesn't work for everybody I work out every day for at least 30 minutes and I still contemplate kms every other hour
I have suffer'd Panic Disorder for 13yrs, but the last 3 yrs have been the worse, but how can I prove my mental health by exercise if I suffer with constant physical symptoms, especially light headedness as this leaves me very week and hardly able to walk.
And when the pre workout kicks in i be smiling like I’m on crack but I never done crack but I bet it feels like this
Instead of making me happier, exercise really exhausts me and makes me extremely angry and makes me get mental breakdowns. It's just really annoying because I heard that exercising can apparently make you feel good but it just doesn't make me feel good at all
Me who works out 4 hours a day cause I hate my self 💪😤
I started working out and started hearing voices like 8 years ago when I was 18 (I'm 26 now). I used to play sports and go to the gym but I didn't do that often. It got worse each day. I've started going to the gym again and have noticed my mental health has improved.
Im by far a exercise expert but I been taking it serious for 5 years now age 17-22 currently, and throughout these years mainly in the beginning I was exercising everyday 5 times a week and I noticed that I was calmer and more in a peaceful state , I was optimistic and happier , I liked to challenge myself and grow as a human being . And I got lazy with working out when I finished school and from 18-21 I noticed that when I didn’t exercise I wasnt at my full optimal , efficent , peaceful minded self and now im 22 and doing better in life I definitely want to keep exercise in my life because it’s brought me so far in life physically and mentally . Now a thing most people forget when their constantly working their body is to also work the mind by reading and meditating . If you workout , read and meditate you will go alot further vs exercise alone.
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Exercising and lifting has literally saved my life
I think excersize makes me feel more good about myself cause it helps me take care of myself and that I'm taking the initiative to improve mentally and physically.
now that is a reason to work out, thank you!
Working out is helping me escape the role of the filler token fat friend. Im starting to feel like I can actually be a main character in my own life instead of a side character in everyone else's
Thank you. This is very helpful. I’m 74 years old and have never had a serious exercise program and want to get started. I especially appreciate that you showed at the end the one exercise which is helpful and everyone can do. There are so many exercises and it can be difficult to know where to start.
For me exercise is very important and it's best to our health. Many people are not trying this no. 1 they have no time,
And No time to go to gym because schedule of work sample the people working in office. It depends to the person but for me we need to try or given yourself in workout in 3x or 4x in a week.
It's depends to our Fitness Goal.
Exercise has been an integral part of my life since I was 13 years old. I'm now 49 and I can still maintain the same physical health and wellbeing that I had as a teenager. I believe that exercise is the key to achieving whatever goals you set for yourself in life.
great
Effects of workout on our mental health – https://youtu.be/Ed2A5YZ6uN0
I workout but still have low confidence
Sound too low but great content
I would replace the word "exercice" by movement.😉
This isnt correct
Running increases cortisol. Walking reduces it
Thank u for well known but often forgotten insights!!
Excuse me ma'am, what's the difference between working out everyday and having a regular exercise routine? And how is it called a regular exercise routine if people take 2 or 3 days break from exercise?
When she said exercising 3+ hrs correlated to poor mental health, even more than those that don’t exercise, I felt attacked.
I exercise but I don’t think my mental health is any better.
This information is no doubt very helpful but having someone just read a prompt is the most non-engaging delivery.
I worked out 5 days a week, 2 hours a day for the past 30 years. I didn't get any results. I went through bouts of depression. Where's the benefit for me?
I had a really bad panic attack a month or so back and before that panic attack I would exercise every night and I would never feel apathetic but after the attack I stopped working out because I would feel a minor panic attack every time I tried exercising I’m better now but lately I’ve been feeling terrible maybe it’s the lack of exercise.
I have to watch this for school
Nice video 👍
My teacher sand me here
my english teacher sent me here
1 month ago i was 360,had my 1st anxeit attack and panic attack…self isolated couldnt go to work..1 month later..i been if fasting,eating healthy im at 335 and my mh is getting way better…remember you guys you have to force yourself..trust me it gets better..i really been getting better…hopefully in a few months i wont have no more,bcuz it sux..