Mental Health and Exercise

Exercise can help with both anxiety and depression, two things that play a part in many anxiety disorders.

When we exercise the body produces stress-relieving chemicals (endorphins, which are related to Morphine) to counteract the stress the exercise produces. These chemicals relieve all stress.

For anxiety, doing something (by exercising) releases some of the nervous energy and also proves beneficial rather than just sitting around and doing nothing but worrying.

With depression, exercising gives us more energy which can counteract the 'having no energy' element to depression.