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[Running helps--or how you escape depression without a psychiatrist and end up running a marathon!]
1Gesundheitszentrum St. Gallen, St. Gallen. beat.knechtle@hispeed.ch
Abstract:
We describe the case of a 27-year-old woman with adjustment disorder, disturbances of other feelings such as fear, depression, worries, anxiety and anger due to various burdens such as conflict with boyfriend and unclear job situation (ICD-10 f4323); furthermore, a status after intoxication with sleeping pills (ICD-10 X61) due to a difficult family situation. Regular endurance training helped the young woman to get over her serious life crisis and start a new life without psychiatrist and psychopharmaca. Thanks to progressively increasing running training, the patient was able to run a half-marathon in her first training year and aims for marathon and Powerman-Duathlon in the future.
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