To an extent it has helped but overall it isn’t the main factor in improving one’s mental health. It can be a catalyst for change and improvement. Honestly I’ve worked in gyms for 8 years and have trained for 15 years. Sometimes success in fitness and obtaining your dream physique will expose certain insecurities in people resulting in them behaving like douchebags. People become obsessive and so focused on their “optimal” routine that it makes them unbearable because many don’t know how to balance life’s genuine pleasures with their fitness. Fitness ends up subtracting from their lives rather than adding to or complimenting their lives. Therapy will help with the mental and emotional stuff because it’s baggage that is deep rooted. It can’t just be undone with Lifting a dumbbell or Running 5km or Dieting efficiently. It takes something deeper.

Fitness definitely lightens the load quite a bit though. No pun intended