Health professionals have significantly underestimated the importance of lifestyle for mental health. More specifically, mental health professionals have underestimated the importance of unhealthy lifestyle factors in contributing to multiple psychopathologies, as well as the importance of healthy lifestyles for treating multiple psychopathologies, for fostering psychological and social well-being, and for preserving and optimizing cognitive capacities and neural functions.
Therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC): (1) Exercise, (2) Nutrition and Diet, (3) Nature, (4) Relationships (friendships), (5) Recreation and Enjoyable Activities, (6) Relaxation and Stress Management, (7) Religious and Spiritual Involvement, (8) Contribution and Service.
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Exercise
Exercise may help prevent depression for all ages, genders & nationalities
- Exercise as a treatment for depression has been blogged about a few times here on the Mental Elf, but this latest study finds evidence that physical activity may prevent depression also.
- Findings: People who did most physical activity were 17% less likely to get depression than those who did least physical exercise... The results applied globally to male and females, young and old.
- Another study.
- Bailey and colleagues conclude that physical activity is a promising primary intervention for adolescents and young people experiencing a diagnosis or threshold symptoms of depression. However, they have concerns surrounding the methodological quality of the trials included, which limit their ability to draw robust conclusions.
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Diet
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Nature
Connection to Nature Can Ease Distress, Hyperactivity in Kids
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Sleep
Use Exercise to Improve Teen Sleep
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Sleep
Use Exercise to Improve Teen Sleep
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