{"id":33800,"date":"2017-05-12T01:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T01:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=33800"},"modified":"2017-05-12T01:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T01:29:13","slug":"youre-trying-yoga-treat-depression-stick-see-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=33800","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re trying yoga to treat depression, stick with it to see the benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Because medication and therapy don\u2019t always benefit everyone with depression, mental health experts are always hunting for alternative treatments \u2014 and one of the most popular is yoga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of recent studies<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>have pointed to yoga\u2019s positive impact on clinical depression. A new study published in the journal&nbsp;<em>Psychological Medicine<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>agrees with those findings, but with a caveat: it may take some time for yoga\u2019s benefits to appear.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Butler Hospital in Rhode Island split about 100 participants with depressive symptoms into two groups: for 10 weeks, about half of them took weekly yoga classes, while the other half took a healthy living workshop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget-ad  \">&nbsp;<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The type of yoga used in the study was<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>hatha yoga, a broad term that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>encompasses the physical poses of yoga<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>and can be used to describe most of the common forms of yoga practiced today.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it didn\u2019t appear that yoga had any particular impact on the participants, who continued to take their antidepressant medication during the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not see statistically significant differences between hatha yoga and a control group at 10 weeks,\u201d said the study\u2019s leader Dr Lisa Uebelacker<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>in a statement. \u201cHowever, when we examined outcomes over a period of time \u2014 including the three and six months after yoga classes ended \u2014 we found yoga was superior to health education in alleviating depression symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Uebelacker said her study is the biggest investigation into yoga\u2019s effects on depression that\u2019s been conducted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because medication and therapy don\u2019t always benefit everyone with depression, mental health experts are always hunting for alternative treatments \u2014 and one of the most popular is yoga. 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