Practically everyone, from experts with PhDs to your annoying
coworker who only wears gym clothes and always has a Luna Bar
attached to her hand, raves about how exercise releases
endorphins. (The "exercise feels amazing!" argument even popped
up in last Sunday's episode of Girls, which is how we can be
certain it's for real.) For decades, researchers have tried to
prove that exercise can make even clinically depressed people
happier. But a new study shows it's not that simple. According
to the Telegraph, most of the evidence that exercise reduces
symptoms of depression is based on small, non-clinical samples.
(Although this 2010 Time piece kind of says otherwise.) Now, a
new large-scale, randomized study published in the British
Medical Journal has found that clinically depressed people who
received a "physical activity intervention" for a year did not
report feeling any better about their lives. Study participants,
all of whom were diagnosed with depression, were split into two
groups: one received "physica