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Article: Halt to exercise = depression?(research)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Regular exercisers who are forced to stop may experience depressive symptoms, Ali A. Berlin reported at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
The findings of a study of 40 regular exercisers do not suggest that stopping exercise will induce clinical depression in otherwise healthy people. However, previous research with athletes who were forced to stop exercising because of injury or illness suggested levels of depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders were increased and recovery was slower among those who already had depressive symptoms.
"Therefore, it is important for [physicians] to monitor depressive ...