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Subject: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:27 PM I've just finished an entire box of Ritz crackers (small savoury crackers for eating with cheese, pate, that sort of thing, nice and salty). Usually it's chocolate, but tonight, I'm that down, it had to be something different. Just to stop myself going completely round the bend, what do other 'Catters eat when depressed/down/lonely/bored witless? LTS Going for the chocolate now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Amergin Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:32 PM thats pretty much it, LTS....chocolate....anything you wish to talk about sweetie? |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Liam's Brother Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:33 PM If I eat at all, I eat Guinness. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Greyeyes Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:37 PM I'm rarely tempted by comfort eating, I tend to hit the bottle, which just makes me even more miserable. More positively, favourite book/poem/CD/video can all help. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Naemanson Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:37 PM I eat anything in sight. It's a see food diet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: campfire Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:39 PM I'm with you on the chocolate. Fresh, home-made chocolate chip cookies are the best. Otherwise, just the chocolate chips will do. Or Chocolate Truffle Explosion Ice Cream. Maybe with the fresh chocolate chip cookies... campfire |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Kim C Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:40 PM Brie cheese, Haagen-Dazs Rum Raisin ice cream, sushi, or a tall Mocha Valencia from Starbucks. If I'm at home I may drink wine or whatever's there but I have to watch that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: kendall Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:46 PM Kudos. Chocolate swirl no fat no sugar added ice cream. Crackers and peanut butter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: CarolC Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:56 PM So what do you eat when depressed? Not much. Sometimes I get so skinny, I scare myself when I look in the mirror. I gain weight when I'm happy. It's a no-win situation. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Hollowfox Date: 02 Apr 01 - 06:06 PM Usually I bite people's heads off. Other than that, things with chocolate or salt. Or pastry. Or unbaked cookie dough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Matt_R Date: 02 Apr 01 - 06:32 PM Chocolate chip cookies and sweet tea! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Helen Date: 02 Apr 01 - 07:16 PM Chocolate dark & bitter. Just discovered a Nestle variety here in Oz called Mocha Truffle - combines deep dark chocolate with deep dark coffee flavour. Yumm! Cheese - allergic to dairy foods, that's why. Scotch whisky - but never gin when depressed. I tested the Scotch theory for 14 months until end of June last year. It definitely works for stress. It is like a switch being turned off in my brain, stopping that high speed mouse-wheel repetition of everything that was worrying me and for which I could find no solutions. I haven't had a drink of Scotch for at least 6 months. Only needed it when I needed it. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Peg Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:35 PM Cape Cod potato chips; Jif peanut butter on crackers (when not depressed I eat the all natural kind); ice cream (favorite at-home is Ben and Jerry's Vanilla Caramel Fudge); Lucky Charms cereal with milk... |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Max Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:42 PM Tequila or Knowledge. Defer it or move forward.
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: bigchuck Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:51 PM Everything. And too damn much of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Art Thieme Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:52 PM Zoloft.
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Little Neophyte Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:58 PM I consume my credit card limit |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:09 PM All the same things I eat when I'm not depressed, only with a bit less enjoyment. Pretty boring, eh? I get depressed just thinking about it... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: GutBucketeer Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:09 AM Ice Cream! (Any Flavor, Any Brand) GutBucky 'course I eat ice cream when I'm not depressed too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: GUEST,#1 Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:52 AM Nothing like eating crow to make you depressed, but eating your way out of it I've never heard of. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Firecat Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:27 AM HOT DOG SANDWICHES!!!!!!!!! And lots of them! Alternatively, I've just found this new sandwich. Take three slices of white bread, half a tin of tuna, a few slices of turkey ham, ketchup and salad cream. Mix the tuna with some of the ketchup and the salad cream. Lay the turkey ham on one slice of the bread (NO BUTTER!! It spoils the taste!) and spread the rest of the ketchup on it (If using a full bottle, use as much as you want). Put another slice of bread on top of that and spread tuna mixture on it. Place final slice of bread on top of that, squash down a little bit, cut into quarters (or half if you've got a big mouth!) and eat, with tomato and crisps on the side. GORGEOUS!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:35 AM Hmmm, might just give the Hot dog sausages a try. We have a catering size 100 tin of HDS downstairs........ And please, send me the recipe/availability for Chocolate Truffle Explosion Ice cream - it sounds a blast!! Have progressed onto chocolate and crisps, things are not good...... although after 2 weeks of no appetite, anything is better than nothing! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:29 AM EVERYTHING ANYTHING Except Olives, brandy. And a few other things... Mostly chocolate, cream cakes, and various other stodge. Ella |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: sledge Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:44 AM anything savoury, on reflection this along with beer may explain my less than sveldt figure. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: sian, west wales Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:50 AM Taco chips or Tesco's Chocolate Fudge Brownie frozen yogurt - which has mega-sugar but next to no fat ... VERY much worth looking for this one, Liz. Oh, or greasy-crisp-bacon-on-cheap-white-bread butties. With onions fried black. Hmmm ... almost (but not quite) worth getting depressed for. Hope things lighten up for you soon. sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Michael in Swansea Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:06 AM Guinness - good for any mood. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: mkebenn Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:45 AM Whiskey. Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Mr Red Date: 03 Apr 01 - 08:06 AM Humble Pie |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Jenny the T Date: 03 Apr 01 - 08:11 AM My weight. Especially if any salty crunchy food is around. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Bagpuss Date: 03 Apr 01 - 08:30 AM When depressed because of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) I tend to crave carbohydrates. During other depressions, I tend to eat very little, except venlafaxine and mirtazapine. By the way it is National depression Week in the UK - so I'm doing my bit and raising awareness of a crippling illness which still has a huge amount of social stigma attached and of which many people know very little, even though they are generally well informed people. Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Maryrrf Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:15 AM Pasta!!! And plenty of it!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: MMario Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:24 AM anything not nailed down. and some things that are. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: campfire Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:40 AM Liz the Squeak - Chocolate Truffle Explosion is made by The Dreamery, which I think is a "subspecies" of Edy's. A bit pricey, but worth it. Fortunately, it only comes in the pint size (like Ben and Jerry's) and I only let myself buy one at a time. campfire |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: LR Mole Date: 03 Apr 01 - 11:40 AM Because I think life is an extended effort to repair childhood, I eat kidfood when I'm sad. Spaghetti-os with sliced frankforts is a big fave, maybe because it tastes, really, like neither. Sorta tomato-mustard-y, although I've never had mustard. Point is, I have to feela little bit as though I'm sneaking it. ALSO the difficult-to- find Cambbell's Scotch Broth which has barley and (Gawd!) parsnips in it. Can't imagine why I like it. Wouldn't eat the ingredients themselves on a bet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:13 PM Suet pudding has gone down a treat, although I shall spare you Gervase's description of it. So basically, it's stodge and chocolate..... Hmmmm interesting.....! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Amergin Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:10 PM Bagpuss, I am with you on thought....most folks seem to think that depression is just feeling a bit sad....and that you can just "snap out of it"...they don't realise that for folks like us it is a serious medical condition that can kill.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: mousethief Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:13 PM Too many people use "depressed," which is a clinical term with a precise medical definition, when what they really mean is something like "feeling down" or "feeling blue." When I'm depressed, I don't eat at all, or if I do eat, it's whatever is handy or placed before me. When you're depressed, it all tastes like sand anyway. When I'm just "feeling down," chocolate is a definite must. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Joy Bennett Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:49 PM when I'm feeling blue - anything will do (though nothing beats Leonidas chocolates), but when I am depressed only EVERYTHING will do -- of course it doesn't make it go away -- in fact -- usually makes it worse. If I can manage to drag myself to the gym/pool when depressed, the exercise helps. but those blues or on those sad days, only the best chocolate will do -- and that's when my credit card gets devoured along with it. Leonidas -- imported weekly from Belgium to NY -- the best!! (and NOT the most expensive) You can get it in Brussels for a fraction of the cost -- at Harrods in London for a small fortune. There are several stores in the states with 2 in NYC -- 51st and Madison and Hanover Square in the financial district. Go, eat, enjoy!! And share some with me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: MMario Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:57 PM when I'm depressed - I shovel food in. it doesn't matter what. then sleep until I'm hungry again. If I can't sleep for one reason or another (usually work) - then I eat more. |
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Subject: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:57 PM My wife... And *poof*!!! No more depression... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 03 Apr 01 - 02:01 PM I suppose if I get depressed it puts me off my food.
I eat when I'm hungry, I drink when I'm dry if whiskey don't kill me, I'll live till I die.
Except I prefer drinking beer to whiskey as a rule. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Apr 01 - 03:21 PM With you on the disinctions, I know I'm depressed when I cry for no reason. Being a bit down for me just means not being as noisy as usual, or just wanting to be alone. When I start blubbing at the merest thing and scream at inanimate objects (no, that doesn't include the SO) for no reason, then I know I'm in trouble..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: enkd Date: 03 Apr 01 - 03:39 PM I'm really not trying to pick a fight, this is an honest question... What is the precise medical definition of "depressed"? The only free online dictionary I found, Merriam-Webster, lists:
(As well as some others, referring to indentations in glass, and whatnot...) Then again, I didn't check a medical dictionary. People seem very sensitive about the distinction... is it incorrect or insensitive to use the word to imply the first definition, above? It seems like a qualitative distiction, given that there is no real litmus test. Or is there? Thanks |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Jim Krause Date: 03 Apr 01 - 03:39 PM Liz, sorry you're feeling so badly. I used to smoke a pipe. But later I found that it was starting to ruin my voice--couldn't make quite the high notes I used to. So I quit that--mostly. Anyway it helped me to keep some unwanted pounds off the middle. Nowadays, I just mostly grab an instrument. Any of 'em will do, guitar, banjo, fiddle. Probably the guitar is the most likely candidate. That way I can sing the blues. I save chocolate for when I get the craves. Popcorn is for when I'm feeling too lazy to fix even a sandwich. Crackers are for when I'm too lazy to fix popcorn. Fresh fruit is for when I'm feeling too lazy to open the box of crackers. Ice cream is seasonal, usually spring and summer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: tiggerdooley Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:35 PM Nutella Steak McCoys Buttercream (made by mashing up icing sugar and butter) Toast Then nothing..........for days!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: mousethief Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:58 PM enkd, yes, it is at least impolite and imprecise to use definition 1 when there are people who actually fall under the medical definition around. The actual definition is supplied by the DSM-IV. The DSM-IV lists major depression, disthymia, and bipolar disorder as 3 different "kinds" of depression. The definitions are as follows:
Major depression is: Over the last 2 weeks five of the following features should be present of which one or more should be:
1. depressed mood most of the day nearly every day and the remaining (the total to make at least five) from any of the following:
3. significant weight loss or gain (more than 5% change in 1 month) or an increase or decrease in appetite nearly every day And the symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in occupational or other important areas of functioning. BUT: It cannot be established that an organic factor initiated and maintained the disturbance The disturbance is not a normal reaction to the death of a loved one (morbid preoccupation with worthlessness, suicidal ideation, marked functional impairment or psychomotor retardation, or prolonged duration suggest bereavement complicated by major depression). At no time during the disturbance have there been delusions or hallucinations for as long as two weeks in the absence of prominent mood symptoms (i.e. before the mood symptoms developed or after they have remitted). Not super imposed on schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder or psychotic disorder not superimposed on schizophrenia.
According to the DSM-IV, dysthymia is characterized by an overwhelming yet chronic state of depression, exhibited by a depressed mood for most of the days, for more days than not, for at least 2 years. (In children and adolescents, mood can be irritable and duration must be at least 1 year.) The person who suffers from this disorder must not have gone for more than 2 months without experiencing two or more of the following symptoms:
poor appetite or overeating In addition, no Major Depressive Episode has been present during the first two years (or one year in children and adolescents) and there has never been a Manic Episode, a Mixed Episode, or a Hypomanic Episode, and criteria have never been met for Cyclothymic Disorder. Further, the symptoms cannot be due to the direct physiological effects of a the use or abuse of a substance such as alcohol, drugs or medication or a general medical condition. The symptoms must also cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, educational or other important areas of functioning.
Bipolar is too big to put here; to see it go to this blicky: blicky
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Justa Picker Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:00 PM I get depressed. Then, I buy a guitar. Then I play it for a while. Then the bill comes in for it, and I get depressed figuring out how I'm going to pay for it. Then, I eat several "Mounds" bars. Then I weigh myself and discover I've gained weight. (So I stop eating all chocolate and sweets. Then, the withdrawl from them makes me depressed.) So, then I buy a guitar.... ...and the cycle starts all over again. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: campfire Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:28 PM Alex, I don't want to pick a fight either, but isn't the distinction between "depressed" and "depression"? (I have also suffered from Clinical Depression; I did the psychotherapy route, without drugs). Even in your definition, (quoting from above) " Major depression is: Over the last 2 weeks five of the following features should be present of which one or more should be: 1. depressed mood most of the day nearly every day..." it would imply that a depressed mood that lasts only a few hours or is not nearly every day would still be "a depressed mood", but not necessarily "depression". In the medical field, we used "depressed" as a state a patient might be in, for example, post-surgically. We do not mean that the patient "has depression", merely that s/he is, for now, depressed. I myself still have (occasional) depressed moods, but (I hope) I'm over the battle with Depression. campfire |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: Hawker Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:31 PM everything! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So what do you eat when depressed? From: DancingMom Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:57 PM I like ClintonHammond's remedy. If not that, then I IMMERSE myself in music. I make myself get outside for a walk and some sun, even when it's cold. The light really helps me. Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice cream. A good German beer. A chat with an old friend. I hope you feel better soon. Please see someone if it doesn't. Take care, Sharon |