Exercise helps you meet people, cope with anxiety and frustration, and have a sense of accomplishment, which helps with depression (“The importance of physical exercise"). James Blumenthal, PhD, a clinical psychologist, states that “there is good epidemiological data to suggest that active people are less depressed than inactive people. And people who were active and then stopped tend to be more depressed than those who maintain or start an exercise program” (Weir, Kirsten). Blumenthal conducted an experiment that included four different groups of severely depressed patients; one group was prescribed a supervised exercise program, one group was told to exercise at home, one group was given an antidepressant, and the last group was given a placebo pill. The group that exercised under supervision showed the same amount of remission or more than the group that had remission