Comment by worldsavior

Sports activity affect the brain physically, and in my opinion, can help fix mental disorders. Not all disorders, I'm no neurologist, but in my non-scientific experience, sports really help mental illnesses.

For example, if you have depression, doing sports most certainly help you get out of depression. If your body image makes you depressed somewhat, sports fix that. (Put aside cases where people have a burned face or some other irregular case.)

For OCDs, you may get your obsessive thoughts/actions to be replaced by sports activity. You exert energy, you work and it helps.