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Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Exercise and anxiety

maree98
maree98

Does anyone know if exercising actually helps with anxiety? 

arfie
arfie
It helps me, quite allot. It gives me a potentially healthy channel for the surplus energies which are generated by my anxieties. Without a healthy channel, that surplus energy burns me alive, from the inside out.

In my own case, that potentially healthy channel carries risks of its own. I tend to forget to eat and burn more calories than I can afford to burn. Balance in all things.
Restful
Restful
Yes, exercise releases neurotransmitters in the brain that can help alleviate anxiety and depression.
Tired
Tired
Yes, I should do it more often.
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Yes, exercising gives anxiety natural release fast.
Brockster
Brockster
1000% Just as everyone has said, it will get the brain to release the feel good transmitters... Plus it can help get you out of your head and into your body. If you stop focusing on the anxiety it loses its hold.
rmb
rmb
Helps me for sure.
Joon
Joon
Yes. I believe it helps a lot.
The difference in my mood when I exercise or don't is like night and day.
sweetgirl18
sweetgirl18
Yes it does help me out a lot. I love doing my yoga.
Secouya
Secouya
Yes, it helps work off the nervousness and agitation caused by anxiety.
musiclady595
musiclady595
Yes - exercise does help. Even it it's cranking up the music and dancing all by yourself in the room.
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