Physical activity often seems at least as good as medicine. Seven examples of how movement heals.
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In sports, the patients noted that they can create things on their own. After eight weeks, often longer running show symptom improvement after many sessions as
Sometimes life is an obstacle in their path, which are so large that it can not be out of the way. Almost two years ago was Gabrielle Merz (name changed) before such an obstacle. Your job in the marketing department, she filled out no longer, the working atmosphere was bad, the colleagues were uncommunicative. There were also personal problems, their marriage was drifting towards a low point. "Since I lost my inner balance," says Merz, 38, today. The depression was eating her powers.Some days Merz lay on the sofa watching TV and let the life flicker past in itself. "In the evening I did not even know which natural remedies I've seen," she says.
One can not claim that they had then made a run at the thought of therapy air jumps.She took medication during this time, waiting for an appointment to interview remedy. "But I thought I'd look at me this time to run," says Merz. "Worse, it could hardly be so."
"Satisfied as long gone"
So she's on a cold day in March, driven to the venue on their feet their old running shoes in the head a bunch of fears. "I was afraid to weaken, and I was afraid of the group." Merz was once like jogging, but since she struggled with the depression, she had barely moved - and gained 15 pounds. "I felt at first like a walrus, which trudges through the woods." But after the first hour it felt good for her to exercise in the fresh air. "After an hour I was so happy as he had not much longer," she says.The more she came to the training, the easier it was to walk. And the more she ran, the fitter it was also in everyday life. "Running the patients understand that they can create things on their own. Shown in the eight weeks in the woods more often than symptom improvement after many sessions of practice," says Diana heeled.
Stoeckel, 48, is a trained psychotherapist and therapist run. Using a special program for learning to depressed patients, to jog 30 minutes a piece. First, go running and Gehphasen from the two-minute intervals, then gradually increase the running portions. Stoeckel has had good experience with running therapy in people with mild depression. "Every step, these people make it their own. So yes, they can not be as bad as they think," she says. The positive changes in the sessions, the therapist discusses and applies them to other areas.
Motivation and movement in life
Gabrielle Merz also felt it in parallel with nature flourished. In the forest the snow melted, the meadows sprout the first spring flowers. And she felt like walking through the movement also came back into her life. She separated from her husband moved into a new apartment and looked around for a new job. And when she trotted in front of a job interview through the woods, she was like a mind game, "I told myself that if you now think of even a minute longer, tomorrow is a good date." It worked. Merz has a new job, which makes it great fun. The drugs she has settled. And she still jogs three times a week to ten kilometers. Because she has a new goal: "I would like to participate once in a half marathon."
