Guiyong Lin, a former vice president of Entie Commercial Bank in Taiwan, was on the verge of reaching the top of his career when he started to suffer from depression and hit the bottom of his life.
After being discharged from the hospital, he started hiking. He would go out with a simple meal every morning, and then after climbing the mountain, sweating, and taking a bath in a hot spring, he would come home to rest. Unexpectedly, this helped make a 180 degree change in his mood. In his book “When Depression Knocks on Your Door,” he described his mood after climbing: “I felt happy and relaxed for the entire day, and the uncomfortable symptoms of depression gradually disappeared.” During the period of more than a decade, he has been persisting on climbing, and miraculously, his depression never recurred.
