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It's a known fact that exercise and good lifestyle are good for the mental health. But isn't the inability to maintain a good lifestyle one of the first symptoms of depression ?

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Exactly. Depression is defined in part as being the inability to effectively do those things.

Why is this downvoted? It's literally two of the questions on the PHQ9, which is used to, you know, diagnose/measure depression.

Maybe some of y'all should stick to the javascript threads and stop pretending to be experts in healthcare. Listen more, speak less, kids.

Many people unfortunately think that depression is like somatic diseases such as influenza, where we deduce the presence of a pathogen, a root cause, based on presented symptoms. But for depression (and many other mental health issues) we don't currently know any root cause(s) – all we can do is give names to sets of often-comorbid symptoms.

You have to work on your will to live incrementally.

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