Appetite

[Bruyas]

when you are depressed and you don't feel like eating anything do you actually force yourself to eat or force yourself to eat a minimum amount of calories or do you just not eat for the day. For me food doesn't taste the same when you're depressed and it becomes more of a chore to eat it. just curious if anyone else has the same type of issue

 

[Tempura]

I got it like this: at times I ate too little, at times I ate too much. Many times eating seemed to be affected.

Please eat, despite what you feel, it is important. These basic things always are: eating, moving, sleeping. You do what you can do normalize them.

 

[Press On]

Yes, it's good to keep your strength up. Eat and drink sensibly. Appetite is often the first thing to go with me when depressed. So eat something nourishing, even if just a little.

Don't feel guilty. Fasting can be beneficial if done for the right reasons. Don't feel like eating? Pray instead. But please don't go for days and days without regular nourishment.

Yes, depression affects appetite. Some eat too much, some too little. Normal when depressed.

 

[Jeshu]

Yep make sure you don't only eat but that you eat well.

Recently a health care provider found out that I had Candida - which is a form of gut fungi and cause leaky gut syndrome - strongly linked to mental illness, like depression, rage, anxiety and psychosis - all things I suffer from.

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14177/anxious-moody-depressed-why-you-might-have-candida.html

She told me to stop eating sugar, yeast, sweet fruit and nuts to stop feeding the Candida. Four months later I have much more energy and go in me, I only get about 15 or 20 percent of the psychotic activity I had before and found an enormous lift in my mood mean it came to my depressive spells. I still cycle through my moods so my bi-polar hasn't completely healed but I have enjoyed a massive improvement especially in my psychotic part of my illness. The Candida has been reduced to normal levels and my gut should be healed or healing itself.

As you can see food is very important as well as supplements in some cases. For example I take high quality B complex tablets as well as Iron, Zinc, Magnesium and Vitamin C and take them every day this is partly responsible for having so much more (good) energy.

I have a friend who schizophrenic and he believed that only milk was true food. So for years that is all he consumed, after awhile I convinced him to use some cream as well (to stay warm in winter time) he was completely of the planet during this time and impossible to have a conversation with. He got into trouble and was put on an state order - so they force medications into him - and got him to eat properly again - I have my friend back again. Sure he is still a psychotic person, but at least we can spend time with each other again without going mad having to put up with him. Not only medicine abut also good food brought him back to some reason and he is doing really good now.

 

[Press On]

Yep make sure you don't only eat but that you eat well.

Recently a health care provider found out that I had Candida - which is a form of gut fungi and cause leaky gut syndrome - strongly linked to mental illness, like depression, rage, anxiety and psychosis - all things I suffer from.

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14177/anxious-moody-depressed-why-you-might-have-candida.html

She told me to stop eating sugar, yeast, sweet fruit and nuts to stop feeding the Candida. Four months later I have much more energy and go in me, I only get about 15 or 20 percent of the psychotic activity I had before and found an enormous lift in my mood mean it came to my depressive spells. I still cycle through my moods so my bi-polar hasn't completely healed but I have enjoyed a massive improvement especially in my psychotic part of my illness. The Candida has been reduced to normal levels and my gut should be healed or healing itself.

As you can see food is very important as well as supplements in some cases. For example I take high quality B complex tablets as well as Iron, Zinc, Magnesium and Vitamin C and take them every day this is partly responsible for having so much more (good) energy.

I have a friend who schizophrenic and he believed that only milk was true food. So for years that is all he consumed, after awhile I convinced him to use some cream as well (to stay warm in winter time) he was completely of the planet during this time and impossible to have a conversation with. He got into trouble and was put on an state order - so they force medications into him - and got him to eat properly again - I have my friend back again. Sure he is still a psychotic person, but at least we can spend time with each other again without going mad having to put up with him. Not only medicine abut also good food brought him back to some reason and he is doing really good now.

Thanks for the link. "Eliminate sugar.".......LOL!......somehow I knew before reading it was going to be in the article somewhere. That stinks because it's a weakness of mine. Not excessively, but I can't deny myself totally. So I choose snacks with the lowest calories and sugar content.

I know you have managed to escape the clutches of sugar and it has helped you a lot.

 

[Jeshu]

Thanks for the link. "Eliminate sugar.".......LOL!......somehow I knew before reading it was going to be in the article somewhere. That stinks because it's a weakness of mine. Not excessively, but I can't deny myself totally. So I choose snacks with the lowest calories and sugar content.

I know you have managed to escape the clutches of sugar and it has helped you a lot.

I advise anyone to dump sugar it is great and has many benefits, including better mental health. Though I hated stopping sugar at first, and found it reasonably hard the first few months, especially the first few weeks, it is great to be without that stuff. The best part is that I'm steadily loosing my excessive weight because I don't get the munchies anymore and eat far less junk food than before.

 

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