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The Therapeutic Effects of Exercise
Exercise and fitness are extremely powerful tools. It can be massively beneficial as a therapeutic tool. You can also be abused like any drug. Do you find the therapeutic effect when you go to the gym and beat the crap out of yourself? If that's where you're getting the the therapeutic benefit, then you may just be enjoying the self punishment aspect of the workout. Exercise as a therapy doesn't distract. It brings things to the surface. It cares for. It doesn't hurt you so that you feel it improves your ability to feel everything else. And that will start to help.