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“If you’re depressed, you might be more likely to show up for someone else than you are to show up for yourself,”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

“If you take antidepressants and they make you better, the psychological attribution is external,” he says. “Patients believe that the reason they get better is because of the drug they take. People believe, ‘I cannot even function without having to rely on this external thing that helps me get through the day.’ “With exercise,” he says, “the attribution is internal: ‘The reason I get better is because I myself try. It’s not that somebody else is giving me a pill, it’s that I am putting in the effort.”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

“The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

“It can also lead to greater self-awareness, stress relief, and simple enjoyment of running. For fit and sedentary people alike, mindfulness has been shown to help with depression and anxiety.”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

“If the worst thing that can happen in any situation is that you die, then in the situation when you do die, the worst has happened, so there’s nothing to fear.”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

“having a present-only, judgment-free mind-set can lead to better performance.”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

“the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.”
― Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier