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The Effects of Inactivity on Depression and Anxiety
Inactivity has profound effects on low to moderate depression and anxiety. There's an epidemic of loneliness that is currently happening. Social connections has reduced. People are not getting married or having children. Those also are connected to happiness or less depression, less dread.
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Well, there's actually pretty good data on this lane and it's inactivity because we know how activity has such profound effects on low to moderate depression and anxiety to the point where it's as effective as medications in the short term, probably more effective in the long term because you don't adapt, you don't need more, you actually get better results as you continue to progress. So there's that. So it's inactivity. Social connections has reduced. So real social connections. There's an epidemic of loneliness that is currently happening. And we know that to be strongly connected to our happiness and meaning. People are not getting married. People are not having children. Those also are connected to happiness or less depression, less dread, those types of things. That's what's happening. What's happening is we've given ourselves all the stuff that we want. We're not doing getting the stuff we need.
Speaker 1
If you got everything, God forbid you got everything you want to. Well, same here. Like five, six years ago, I don't like to use the word
Speaker 4
addicted.
Speaker 1
It was like this was attached to my, it did not leave my hand. And it took a long time and I'm still not great at it. It took a long time for me
Speaker 2
to
Speaker 1
go. And then let's have a conversation.
Speaker 3
You know, like- When I do have a watch
Speaker 1
that tells you. Yeah, well, that I forgot to put on a do not disturb text messages. I'm also like trying to sell my house, you know, but no, it's like, you know, I used to sit down at dinner and I'd like, you know, I'd still pull up my phone and then like, now if it happens, I'm like, what are you doing? You idiot, you know? And like, I'm so much happier now because I have a group of friends who like- Call you out. Like we can, we can talk. We can chat. Like we can have deep meaningful conversations, you know, and it's not like, I'm not, I don't want to dog social media because I think in many ways social media is a great thing.
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