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Rates of depression and anxiety are on the rise. The best way out of my depression was through physical activity.

Timo Lenzen for BI

For the better part of a year in 2017, I could barely will myself to leave my house. I was experiencing a prolonged depressive episode with daily, sometimes hourly, panic attacks, and I couldn't see the point in continuing on.

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How I learned to stop worrying and love exercise