TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT…

She was depressed. The cup of ice-cream was next to her. «No, it is not enough», she thought and went to the kitchen to bring a bucket of «Ben & Jerry’s chocolate chips» and pizza and soda and popcorn and more and more…
This is a typical scene from a movie or a book that each of us may see once. Most of the people a familiar with the term depression somehow, maybe even personally.
I was in a process of researching depression’s causes as the feeling of pleasure and stumbled upon an interesting hypothesis that people with depression have a deliberate food and drink preference.
I started to think about that, when I had a deep depression no long time ago, I stopped drinking alcohol at all and could eat no more than once per day. This lack of food is related to two reasons: self-harming and fear that someone will see my depression. My personality is made of the feeling of guiltiness, if something is wrong, I am the one that made mistake, so I am starting to punish myself, for example, not allow myself to eat.

Surprisingly, I am not the only one like that, some phycologists are saying that depressed people and food choice is a certain way of showing your pain. According to the source that I found, there are two types of depression based on food preference, or it is clearer to say the preference to eat or not to eat.

People with spontaneous or fast depression based on a conflict between two or more people are more likely to overeat. This is the way to demonstrate how they feel to others, especially to the one the conflict happened with. People like that allow themselves to eat food that daily they would not eat that often. For example, greasy food like burgers, chips, candies, etc. Moreover, some doctors think that this type of food with a high percentage of fast carbs may make a person feel even more depressed. So, basically, this is the way to make yourself feel worth to show it to others. What somehow connected with the feeling of pleasure…

On other hand, people with deep or real depression, may avoid food at all, this is the type like I explained about myself, needs to mention that this type of people wants to hide their conditions as much as possible, so they may avoid alcohol too, as they don’t want share or show their true feelings by alcohol drunkenness.

So, this information was very surprising to me, and I hope for you too, what I really liked about this fact or hypothesis is that it is something that lay down on the surface but I never paid attention to it, and when I did I was excited how maybe even obvious things can be more complex than they seem from the first sight.