[fbuilesv]

Yes! Common knowledge says that exercise helps you fight depression. If we see that some class of exercise is not as effective as another one (or is not effective at all) then we can start to ask ourselves how they differ.

I think you imply in your comment that "self-motivated exercise" is better than "externally facilitated". If that is true then we can start worrying less about selling the idea of exercising and more about thinking how to motivate a depressed individual.

On the other hand, if both cases of exercising offered the same results then we could say that it's not the motivation but the exercise itself who's helping us.

[jackylee0424]

http://curetogether.com/blog/2011/05/03/23-surprisingly-effe... I'm not using the curetogether survey to argue against the results from a peer-reviewed scientific study. But, if you look at the top-right corner, I think the survey "kinda" reveals "self-motivation" played a big part in fighting against depression.