Posted by raisinb on January 28, 2012, at 21:24:08
In reply to Re: Motivation vs. Anhedonia » alchemy, posted by SLS on January 28, 2012, at 16:00:29
I am also sick of hearing that. I have been a serious runner most of my life, and I love it, but I've had many times where intense exercise actually induced a full-on mixed state. I didn't have a bp diagnosis then, and I didn't know what a mixed state was, but I heard so much about the universal benefits of exercise that I felt perhaps I just wasn't giving it my "all." Took me a while to learn how to just stop before I start ruminating, crying, raging, and jumping out of my skin. I think just like sleep, drugs, alcohol, or food, exercise is a mood "hack" and can do either positive or negative, or perhaps nothing, depending on the individual's brain chemistry.
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