I never worked out whether my eating disorder caused depression or whether the eating disorder was caused, in part, by an underlying depression. They got all tangled up somewhere along the way.
It’s hard to dispute that an eating disorder presses all the right depression buttons: it’s isolating and draining and frustrating and desperate. But maybe the isolation and drainedness and frustration and desperation triggered the eating disorder. It goes both ways.
I am not surprised that research is beginning to identify a link - but it just emphasises the importance of exploring and understanding depression and ways of working through the paralysing feelings. For me, recovery from an eating disorder came hand in hand with moving out of depression; tand, as Finding Melissa explores, the common factor for both was the development of some much needed self confidence and self belief.
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I never worked out whether my eating disorder caused depression or whether the eating disorder was caused, in part, by an underlying depression. They got all tangled up somewhere along the way.
November 10, 2009 - 2:16pmIt’s hard to dispute that an eating disorder presses all the right depression buttons: it’s isolating and draining and frustrating and desperate. But maybe the isolation and drainedness and frustration and desperation triggered the eating disorder. It goes both ways.
I am not surprised that research is beginning to identify a link - but it just emphasises the importance of exploring and understanding depression and ways of working through the paralysing feelings. For me, recovery from an eating disorder came hand in hand with moving out of depression; tand, as Finding Melissa explores, the common factor for both was the development of some much needed self confidence and self belief.
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