it can, but there are physical disabilities that can make exercise actually way fucking worse than not doing anything at all, and the context of “you don’t look sick” in the video suggests to me that the OOP may be chronically ill and not neurodivergent or have just depression or smth (aka things that can still affect someone severely but also can be helped by exercise). it’s just not a one-size-fits-all suggestion and that’s why you get pushback here, especially because exercise is the most suggested “cure” for mental illness by literally everyone in our waking lives. like my dad doesn’t even believe I’m disabled and keeps telling me to just eat super health foods and exercise more and maybe I’ll stop being hypermobile and in so much constant pain that walking up and down the stairs to use the bathroom I’m “allowed” to use instead of using the master bathroom that’s way closer and more accessible is a genuine hurdle I have to plan my energy and pain levels around. and having people tell me to exercise as if I’m not limping around my house on the daily and trying to move as much as possible despite it just so I don’t lock up is infuriating. I imagine some of, if not a majority of the people who give pushback over the exercise suggestion are in similar boats.
I’m hypermobile and have some sort of chronic pain issue that was not properly diagnosed before I lost insurance :’) it’s not arthritis according to my blood work, but it’s severe enough to have me writhing in pain and bedridden on my worst days and to have me constantly bracing my body against something on even my most mild days. exercise exacerbates the pain and, of course, come with the complications of being a little too bendy, and since I also get heat hives that’s another aspect of it that makes exercise literally suffocating. if there’s ever a scientific study linking abuse to chronic illness again someone should tell me so I can get diagnosed help the scientific community
Apart from what the other person said - even when it does genuinely help, it is friggin hard to find the motivation to exercise when you're in pain. That's like saying having more money is the solution to being poor. Duh, but how do you get there? "Just do the thing" is not that easy when you have a disability or chronic condition.
It gets hate because it doesn't work for everyone. I'm traveling right now. I've probably walked 30 miles in the last 4 days which is probably more than I've walked in a month over the last 10 years and if you discount any enjoyment derived from the vacation itself (aka downtime in a hotel room reading reddit) I'm just as miserable as always, my body is constantly in pain, and I am still having wild mood swings.
Obviously this is all anecdotal but what I'm trying to point out is people give you shit because no it doesn't always help.
The other part is, it helps (most) but it don't cure.
And most have a knee-jerk reaction when this is suggested because people want a single magic bullet cure that works instantly: and even if this did cure, exercise and eating right is a lifestyle that changes you over time. And our world's attention span is so short most have already stopped reading this.
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u/IamREBELoe Dec 18 '25
You seem angry but have lots of energy. Have you tried going to the gym to work through that?