If you are depressed then start believing in god along with seeing your doctor. According to a new study, believing in god relieves depression.

Researchers at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center stated after examining the levels of depression in 136 adults who were depressed clinically and combining that with their sense of religious well-being that patients who believed in a caring, personal and concerned God experienced improvement in their condition.

According to Patricia Murphy who led the study and an assistant professor of religion, health and human values, belief in religion and God acts as a medicine and was equal to prescribing a medicine for depression.

“In our study, the positive response to medical had little to do with the feeling of hope that typically accompanies spiritual belief. It was tied specifically to the belief that a Supreme Being cared,” she added.