Teens need sports settings. Not only because of health, fitness & socialising. It enables them to RE-EMBODY, to cope with NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSREGULATION & EMOTIONAL LOAD. To process daily ANGER, while being SAFE & SOCIALLLY CONTAINED. #coregulation#basketball
Physical activity and odds of depression 🏃♀️
Does increasing levels of moderate-vigorous physical activity affect incidence of depression and sub-clinical depressive symptoms?
Read this recent review and meta-analysis ➡️ https://t.co/T0dau4UQ4q
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Rather than thinking about dopamine governing “reward” pathways in the brain, it may be more useful to think about dopamine “reinforcement” pathways, which in turn makes it less surprising that people develop maladaptive behaviors & also reveals tools to rewire dopamine circuits.
Thank you @Edwards10Carla for your oped in @medpagetoday. Mental health affects everyone, not just elite athletics. Sometimes it takes an elite athlete to hammer home the point: there is no physical health without mental health.
https://t.co/svnqtpj1Vi
Please pray for Zimbabwe which has also gone into strict lockdown after #COVID19 cases spiked. Dr Ute Dibb from Norton Eye Unit says “All hospital beds are full already & we had to shut Norton Eye Unit… there is really no guessing as to how long things will be on hold here.”