Ken I don't have bad posture and also don't slump but I have depression or are you saying that mine is not real?
There are a multitude of reasons for depression and sometimes none that can be found but to expect people to just believe your theory without backing it up can be harmful to others. You also seem to think that your theory is the only reason, have you ever thought looking at a previous post you have that the reason may be down to some of the things that you have been through ?
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Allalone,
No, I'm saying others think that physical exertion to the body can lead to depression and that's just one way one person thinks you could be feeling depressed. And from what I originally wrote, if it has accumulated in your body, over time, whatever you're doing, now, isn't going to matter and you could be being affected by it without realizing it. Right now, I am chronically depressed, and I believe it would take 3 months of me doing next to nothing to get rid of it.
Angie,
I don't think I have ever said that my theory is the only reason. And only that it is a possibility that this could be causing it for you. I believe it causes it for me. And I think the blurbs about forward head posture is at least some back up from the science community that some believe that there is a physical connection to depression. And, regardless if it is physical or mental depression, it's still depression. It's how you got there that's different. And, in fact, I would say that physical depression is actually worse than mental depression because there is no obvious reason for it. I once wrote 'I wish something was really wrong, right now, so everything else wasn't.' and that's because it just starts throwing everything at you, trying to fix it mentally but it's not going to work.
I'd compare it to working out. If you work out for years and become muscular, you don't go back to being a 98-pound weakling the moment you stop. If you stopped for a month you probably still wouldn't be, but you would gradually go back to what your normal body shape was. It takes time for it to reverse itself.
And it's one of those things where you might not want to do it that day, but you know you'll feel worse if you don't and once you start doing it you feel better, but you're making it feel a little bit worse for next time.
I planned on taking that 3 months off last July until I came up with this. I was sitting on the porch all summer. But the chair was terrible. One of those white stackable ones. It was just making matters worse. But I wouldn't know it for a while because when I would sit in it I would feel better at first because it's stretching the muscles it's hurting (like working out), but over time it just got worse and worse as those muscles became more stressed out (and more inflamed/bigger over time).
Im sorry if this seems blunt but can you not see that the trauma you suffered in your childhood is far, far more likely to be a cause of your depression than your posture? Do you not think you could be using this theory so you don’t have to deal with how the abuse affected you?Originally Posted by Ken Willidau
And pretty much every expert there is does not advocate ‘doing next to nothing’ as a valid treatment for depression. Exercise is known to increase the ‘happy’ hormones and significantly improves depression symptoms.
Ken, I believe you really need to talk to your doctor about what’s going on, all of it.
Just a note, Ken, we try not to say that one person’s depression is worse than someone else - how everybody here is feeling has just as much an impact on their lives as anyone else’s does.
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