Opaline
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Not sure if anyone else has made a thread about depression and anxiety as it relates to appetite. I searched briefly but didn't find anything.
I'm just wondering how other people's appetites are affected by depression and/or anxiety. Do you eat more or less in response to one or both of those?
For myself, it seems complicated. Sometimes depression leads me to overeat or to eat junk food to feel better temporarily, but other times I lose my appetite completely. I think, though, that I lose my appetite when the depression is accompanied by anxiety. The weird thing is it depends on the nature and cause of it, if I can pinpoint the cause. Sometimes anxiety makes me want to eat comfort food, other times the thought of eating anything makes my stomach hurt. Sometimes depression is just a feeling of emptiness about my life and I want to fill that feeling with something that feels good, but sometimes the depression is due to something more acute, and the sharpness of it completely erases any desire for food (although I still think it is combined with anxiety, but the two are often intertwined so strongly they can be hard to distinguish from one another).
I am just curious what others experience and think about this. I'm tired of going through it and it has gotten to the point where I have gone whole days barely eating anything, which messes my blood sugar up and makes me even worse, but I can't even eat something bland like a banana without revulsion.
I'm just wondering how other people's appetites are affected by depression and/or anxiety. Do you eat more or less in response to one or both of those?
For myself, it seems complicated. Sometimes depression leads me to overeat or to eat junk food to feel better temporarily, but other times I lose my appetite completely. I think, though, that I lose my appetite when the depression is accompanied by anxiety. The weird thing is it depends on the nature and cause of it, if I can pinpoint the cause. Sometimes anxiety makes me want to eat comfort food, other times the thought of eating anything makes my stomach hurt. Sometimes depression is just a feeling of emptiness about my life and I want to fill that feeling with something that feels good, but sometimes the depression is due to something more acute, and the sharpness of it completely erases any desire for food (although I still think it is combined with anxiety, but the two are often intertwined so strongly they can be hard to distinguish from one another).
I am just curious what others experience and think about this. I'm tired of going through it and it has gotten to the point where I have gone whole days barely eating anything, which messes my blood sugar up and makes me even worse, but I can't even eat something bland like a banana without revulsion.