Posted by alchemy on January 29, 2012, at 0:52:24
In reply to Re: Motivation vs. Anhedonia, posted by raisinb on January 28, 2012, at 21:24:08
> 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.
Wow, interesting. I don't like to exercise but I try to do it. It is strange that I need to wait until the evening because that's when I don't feel as "unstable". I was putting my exercise clothes on to just force myself to do a little bit this morning but I was already starting to feel the unstable/wavy stuff. And if I exercise even for a little while it will make it worse. Any ideas why the pm works better for me? I am also much more sensitive to food in the morning. Hell, maybe I should get a night shift job and see what happens.
And who do we get to listen to people that say exercise is not always magical!? My psych Dr didn't even believe me.
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