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Action Before Motivation

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Morning. Marcus is in the kitchen doing that thing he does where he makes the kids' lunches and hums off-key and does not notice he is humming. Lila is arguing with Sam about something involving a crayon. The house is loud in the way houses are loud when everyone in them is alive and she is standing...

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  • Behavioral activation: action precedes motivation in depression — the order is inverted (Martell & Dimidjian, University of Wisconsin/Colorado)
  • Exercise NNT = 4 for depression, adjusted for publication bias (Schuch et al., 2016) — lower than SSRIs (NNT ~7)
  • 2024 BMJ meta-analysis: 218 studies, 14,170 participants — walking g=-0.62, yoga g=-0.55, strength training g=-0.49 (Noetel, University of Queensland)
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