Depressed go hit something

**Seraphim** · Posted On: 9/28/2006 6:31pm

MA has always been an excellent outlet for me. You find friends at class, conversation, excerise and violence.

Martial Arts should be in every school. It would give kids a much more controlled method of venting themselves. If schools could figure out a way to make money off MAs, MAs would be available starting at kindergraden.

**poidog** · Posted On: 9/29/2006 1:03pm

Originally Posted by El Macho

Well, the Dog Brothers had an article in their website which goes alongs those lines. The article is not about MA as a form of therapy, but it does mention the need to have some positive ways to channel natural agression.

DAMMIT!! Beat me to it.

All I can add, I guess, is that you'll find very few depressed Dog Brothers. For the NoHo clan, every Saturday is stress relief!

Aloha, Poi

**Red Elvis** · Posted On: 9/29/2006 1:29pm

Originally Posted by poidog

DAMMIT!! Beat me to it.

All I can add, I guess, is that you'll find very few depressed Dog Brothers. For the NoHo clan, every Saturday is stress relief!

Aloha, Poi

Especially when Poi kicks you in the face. WHAM! :tellme: :5oh:

**Mars** · Posted On: 9/29/2006 3:07pm

We have a saying at my gym: "Violence solves everything"

The room in my house with all my bags and training gear in it is my favorite place in the world

**Judah Maccabee** · Posted On: 9/29/2006 11:16pm

I could go on for hours about the topic (it's my second research interest after eating disorder prevention).

Problem - most of the research shows that modern martial arts doesn't have a prosocial effect.

Problem (in my opinion) - most of the researchers trained in traditional arts and never tried to adapt modern arts to a therapeutic context.

**Shaneus_Snake** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 12:49am

There is actually a physiological reason that MA, or any physical activity for that matter, helps relieve stress. During physical activity the body releases endorphins (don't hold me to that name), that relieve pain and stress.

Beating up your sparring partner acutally makes you healthy!

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 1:09am

Has anybody here actually suffered from depression and cured it with MA or are you all just thinking "I had a bad day once and MA helped me out. Therefore, people who have serious chemical imbalances in their brains will also be cured with MA."?

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 9/30/2006 1:20am

Originally Posted by Poop Loops

Has anybody here actually suffered from depression and cured it with MA or are you all just thinking "I had a bad day once and MA helped me out. Therefore, people who have serious chemical imbalances in their brains will also be cured with MA."?

No way dude. At least for me, it's a stress reliever, specially after working an entire day surrounded by morons... I hate my co-workers.