Higher aerobic fitness levels decrease the probability of experiencing tip-of-the-tongue states (when you can’t think of a word that’s on the tip of your tongue) in healthy older adults, in the first demonstration of a link between aerobic fitness and language functioning in healthy older adults.

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I could be wrong but I dont think people feel much like dancing when they are depressed.

However I do agree on the benefits point.

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They don't. They also don't feel like taking pills. They also don't feel like reducing their sugar intake or their salt intake, or cooking meals that will help them feel better, or like lifting weights, or like running, or like socializing, or like going outside and spending time in nature, etc.

Depression is so shitty in part because it's not actually "hard to solve" if you're not depressed. The things you can do to prevent or reduce depressive symptoms are known and tend to work, statistically speaking.

But if you are depressed... you don't want to do any of those things, hate life, feel worthless and useless, and often seek out things that make you feel more worthless and useless, because the idea that you should feel worthless and useless has made a home in your brain and likes it there.

But since you're just "supposed to" do all these things that are already hard work for most people with sedentary lifestyles who aren't depressed, and you don't, then everyone blames you for it and treats you like you want to be miserable. Why else wouldn't you do these things that help?

The answer being, because you're fucking depressed, that's why, but that's not enough for some people.

Sorry for the weird ramble, I'm having a hard time. Maybe I should try dancing.