Does Chocolate Cause Depression?
Wednesday August 11, 2004
This is an older forum thread, but I thought some good points where brought out: "Any time I eat chocolate. I am depressed for a few days. It could be an allergy to food. But any kind of chocolate and I am blue and down and out for days. Any one else notice this? It is like I think Why am I so depressed? And then I think back to I ate chocolate."
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I am also looking for an answer on chocolate and depresson or withdrawl and moodyness.. I have always had it but lately i have really noticed how much it affects me.. anyone have any comment?
YES!!! I too get quite moody after chocolate – very uptight, sad and irritable…. It lasts for about 3 days after having as little as 1 tiny little cube – It would be interesting to see if this cocoa is the connection or perhaps its an artifical sweetener in it etc…
Wow, I thought I was the only person in the world with this reaction to chocolate. I’ve noticed this for years. Problem is, I crave chocolate even though it has this effect.
I notice this, but I find that it was much worse when I would eat milk chocolate rather than dark chocolate with no milk. I am vegetarian (vegan) and sometimes I find out after the fact that the chocolate I just consumed had trace amounts of milk in it. The next day I have a small amount of depression, but nothing like when I used to eat alot of regular milk chocolate. Also, I am learning slowly that I can be satisfied with a little chocolate rather than a whole bar or bag, and that helps too.
Finally I am seeing this is a real reaction to chocolate. I have been depressed many mornings lasting into the evening, especially when I eat chocolate before bed. If I have it during the day it does not effect my
mood. It only happens when I eat at night I feel the effects the whole next day. Does it have to do with body rythyms at night while you sleep?
I had chocolate last night New years eve a few pieces at midnight. I an suffereing so badky from sadness and depresion today I cannot get outof the bed. I did not drink. This happens more with milk choc. that with dark.Big difference between the effects of both.
I think there is a connection here. I know some people feel that chocolate helps them out of depression but I am convinced for me that it deepens mine. Is it the chocolate….the sugar…..or what?
It’s interesting to know that others have found that chocolate *causes* depression. All the research I have done previously always said that chocolate will only *lift* your mood. I have found that when I eat chocolate, I am revved up and irritable and anxious (to the point where I have trouble breathing because my diaphragm is so tense). I thought anxiety was the only problem I had with chocolate, but I have recently discovered that it also causes me to have a depression that lasts about 3 days. I am just now coming out of a chocolate-iduced depression. I only eat dark chocolate (semi-sweet chocolate chips), so with me, the cause is not milk related.
Feeling depressed after having eaten some dark chocolate tonight I am wondering what it is in the chocolate that could induce this feeling in some but not in others.
I too get very depressed after eating chocolate even in the form of ice cream sandwhiches. I also find myself struggling for air when I eat too much sugar or chocolate just before going to bed. I believe this to be an allergic reaction to chocolate. Listen to your body.
Ready This:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1603927.htm
I used to eat alot of chocolate and I felt ok because it was an addiction. But now I get depressed after eating it. I feel extremely crappy for a little while almost immediately after swallowing it. The abc article verifies my point.
I was using chocolate to alleviate negative emotions and ended up feeling more depressed as the article stated. I think it may be milk chocolate, but then I don’t really eat dark chocolate.
Yes – I get the same exact effect. I don’t even crave it – I just sometimes forget I get this powerful effect and have it occasionally through circumstance. Definietly must not eat chocolate!
I get the same thing with dark chocolate. I have allergies too that I’m still working out. Bought a large bar of dark choc recently and ended up throwing most of it out as I felt so bad. It’s hard to handle when something that makes others so good makes you feel so bad. (Didn’t consider the research in the article as convincing.)
I have eaten Godiva’s for years and never had a problem, however recently been eating other brands – dark chocolate a small piece a day since it is suppose to help with mental abilities. However I went into such a dark depression but I didn’t know it was the chocolate. I stopped eating it due to the acne and never felt this deeply depressed again. I heard there is an agent found in some chocolate which might be causing it.
I too have found that if I indulge in too much chocolate or eat it several days in a row, I slip into a depressed mood, some times quite “black”. I have noticed if I limit myself to a small piece now and then I am OK. I thought it was just me. I do not remembe this being the case when I was much younger, may be somethings have changed in the manufacture of the chocolate who knows.
Wow, this explains a lot. Recently I went to my college orientation and the first night I spent there I was crying and was having one of the worst anxiety attacks ever. It lasted onto the next day and then went away. but today I’m feeling like $&^@. At first I thought it was normal college blues, but aside from that I know what inhibited it. The day I got to school I had 3 ice cream sandwiches and last night I had two large scoops of chocolate ice cream. I haven’t had it in a year and now I feel like crap. Wow…
Yes, I am a mental health professional and have been telling folks for years that chocolate should be available by prescription only for some of us. I thought the ABC article was incomplete. My experience is the same as many here. The effect lasts for about 3 days.
I can’t believe I found this – thank you for re-posting! I have been searching online for quite some time for some mention and confirmation of what I experience whenever I eat chocolate. Basically, the day after indulging (usually just a single bar) I am moody, irritable, depressed and unable to cope with even minor stresses. The moodiness seems to last for at least three days, lessening each day as long as I abstain from chocolate. Honestly, I am a different person when I ingest this stuff. Now, if we could get some clue as to why we are affected by a food this way – that would really be something!
wow, I thought i was losing my mind when i notice this happeningt to me. My depression comes from dark chocolate and this is something new happening to me. I have never had this reaction until recently, so i guess its true what they say about your body changing every seven years. I get acne and extremly depressed from any amount of chocolate, but i still crave it and i’m not even a big chocolate eater.
I have recently made my own connection to feeling terribly depressed after eating chololate. When I mention to friends, they look at me like I’m nuts. This morning I was prompted to do an internet search to see if there was anyone else with the same problem, and am relieved to know that I am not alone, and maybe I don’t need an antidepressant, just stay away from choloate. I have been off chocolate for a week now, and definitely notice I have not had those real low times.
I am so relieved to find out I’m not alone in this. It took me a long time, and a lot of chocolate, to realize where my sporadic depression and irritability were coming from. I just got through a very rough time because 3 days ago I had a craving for a brownie!
It’s nice to find out that I’m not the only one who feels down after eating chocolate.
Thank You!!!I’ve been validated…during the last few months I have been experience symptoms that I never associated with chocolate. My symptoms include anal itching, gas, profuse sweating at night, deep, deep sleep that is not restful, I drag for days. I think I have finally pinpointed the problem.
For years I occasionally have felt an immediate sadness right after eating chocolate. To the point I would cry!
It happened again today. It doesn’t last long but I sure feel sad for about 5-10 minutes. Good to hear I am not alone.
SO GLAD I FOUND THIS SITE
CHOCOLATE LEAVES ME IN A GREAT DEPRESSION
A COUPLE OF FRIENDS HAVE THE OPPOSITE AFFECT CHOCOLATE MAKES THEM HAPPY
This appears to be quite a common issue.In my case chocolate always causes depression for a few days following eating.But too much also causes headaches/migraines.The sole contributing factor for me is cocoa ! I know this for sure because through experimenting making chocolate pudding (uses no actual chocolate but cocoa as an ingredient) greater amounts of cocoa would cause worse headaches and deeper depression making it neccessary to lessen the amount of the ingredient.Of course the worst thing is like most people I LOVE CHOCOLATE ! A frustrating catch 22 situation.
I knew it! I have suspected for some time now that my instant mood swings were as a result of eating chocolate. It is, in a way, a relief to find out that I wasn’t just using this as an excuse for me being a complete nightmare with quite dark depressive thoughts. It is difficult to avoid the stuff especially when you try to explain to friends how it makes you feel, they look at you as if you are alread quite mad and force it into your hand saying “don’t be stupid it’s only chocolate everyone loves it” Now that I’ve read the comments left on this forum I can back up my refusal to eat chocolate and feel much happier for it. Thank you for leaving this forum on About.com it has certainly saved my sanity.
lately I’ve been having these unpredictable bouts of extreme fatigue and anxiety/panic attacks. I’ve suspected it had something to do with something I’ve been eating and have been eliminating certain things from my diet to test the theory. Today I think I may have finally figured it out. Chocolate!
I decided to have some hot chocolate after a hiatis from it for a couple of days. and bingo! within about a half hour I was extremely fatigued and anxious. a few hours later I’m still feeling this way. I also get stuffy and tremble. More like an allergy. I never use to have this problem, what gives? I Love chocolate, I thought it was suppose to be so good for you?
I have suspected for quite some time that chocolate is the cause of my mood swings (and skin breakouts). I have also suspected caffiene because coffee and black tea can cause the same problems. When I alleviate these things my moods are very normal and calm. Chocolate has caffiene in it. White chocolate does not cause these symptoms. Can it be the caffiene? Does anyone who has this problem with chocolate also have the problem with caffiene?
I have the 3-day dark depression after eating chocolate (mild or dark) AND drinking coffee. I noticed a couple of years ago that every time I ate chocolate I would get a headache. A short time after that I noticed the correlation between eating chocolate (despite the headache) and depression that came the following day and lasted for about three days. Next I made the coffee/depression connection. It is an overwhelming depression! I stay away from chocolate, but coffee has been a challenge for me–I go through spurts of wanting it (it is addictive, after all). I am currently off of both and feel 100% better. I believe that we are already finding out all the damage that coffee can wreak on our health (from depression to bone depletion). I hope that chocolate is not the same(for the sake of those who may not feel a negative effect from it), although they both have caffeine. I was glad to find this website and know that I am not alone in this!
I first noticed this every year after Halloween because we gave out chocolate bars. I would get an allergic reaction like a slight cold from eating a LOT of chocolate at one time, but not depression. However, since I have gone through menopause, it seems that even a little chocolate (say 5 M&Ms) will make me depressed and even angry for a few days. I wish someone would study this more. If I don’t eat chocolate, I don’t feel depressed, but I still crave it, so it’s hard to stay away from.
I also experience strange problems after eating chocolate. Never had (or never noticed) these problems until I became addicted to dark chocolate several years ago. Now, if I eat chocolate, even fairly small amounts, I get an initial lift in mood followed by a day or two of a fairly deep depression. What’s worse is the effect it has on my cognitive ability. I lose the ability solve even simple problems or handle even mild stress. This can last from a day to a week depending on how much chocolate I have consumed. When I mention this to my wife, she thinks I’m crazy. I’ve had very little chocolate in the past year and feel much better. However, I still have strong cravings from time to time. It’s insane that you would crave something that makes you feel so bad, weird.
i have heard that white choclate does cause depression and regular/dark chocolate is like the reverse affect i would e-mail a thereapest or somthing
Wow! this week i had been having such depression which cummulated in an extremely bad day, more heavy than usual suicide thoughts, and usually i put it down to the monthly cycle however i had only just finished so i thought it was a bit soon. This particular day i had eaten and drunken way too much chocolate! my b/f said to me you are coming down off a sugar high – and i wondered if he might have a point. This past week i had been eating an extra amount of chocolate but i was still feeling tired and depressed so i would eat more hoping to pick me up but it did the opposite. So yesterday i tried to eat nothing high in sugar and wow I felt a lot better. I don’t know that i have had this problem all my life, yes I do suffer depression, but i had never noticed this connection before. perhaps it will be a good motivator to keep off the sugar and chocolate.
Coffee and chocolate are major no-no’s for anyone suffering from depression and or anxiety. You could end up in a psychotic state and be put on medication as if you are schizophrenic. Weak tean and lots of water is the go.
Yes, yes, yes, I can totally identify with this! Eating chocolate, especially late at night, induces deep depression and even rage the next day. I think it’s the sugar and caffeine in it.
I’ve also noticed changes in cognitive ability – not being able to do my work properly, make decisions or concentrate. A perfect recipe for procrastination. The world looks like a different place. Small problems become huge issues.
Also, I have similar problems with coffee/tea, soda, any caffeinated beverages. It seems that people prone to depression do get a nice high from these things, but their bodies make them pay for it.
Don’t mean to steer off the topic of chocolate, but alcohol is also a problem.
I think it’s because sugar, caffeine and alcohol all wreak havoc with blood sugar levels. The ‘high’ is followed by a crashing low.
Recently I did a complete detox for 2 weeks under the guidance of a naturopath – the difference in mental and physical wellbeing was utterly amazing. It was as if previously I had been wearing dirty spectacles to view the world, and now everything was clean, shiny and new. Even music sounded better.
When I almost eliminated all refined sugars from my diet by eating mostly fruit, vegetables and nuts I felt so much better, I slept better and I was physically very active. Now I have returned from a country where sugar is consumed a lot and I have taken this habit back home. Last night I got up hungry and ate chocolate and cake because there was nothing else, now I wake up really depressed and worn out. I can’t get over it, the smallest problems feel like huge mountains, it brings me back to where I started a really long time ago, I just want an apple or a banana. If you want to feel better then eliminate refined sugar from your diet, one thing will lead to another, you’ll stop eating processed food and more vegetables and fruit, as a result you will become more healthy, you will lose weight, you will feel better. At first it can be hard but if you answer all those sugar cravings with nice fruits then in the long term you will win. I am back to where I started, if there is no sugar in your house then you will not eat it, so it’s really simple. Just don’t buy it.
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I have horrible depression after eating just a tiny bit of chocolate. If I mix sugar or caffine with it it’s even worse. I found a site that helps explain what chocolate does.
http://www.chocolate.org/health/chocprescribe.html
I think that chocolate effects me(us) the way it does because the “anandamide” reacts with a different portion of my mind (this is just a big guess for me)
Sugar and caffine can speed up or “focus” the problem more by providing energy when this happens. That’s what I’m assuming, until someone can tell me for sure why chocolate makes me so depressed.
I have really noticed lately that when I eat any amount of chocolate, within the hour I have no patience, am cranky, feel angry,….and then I am overcome with guilt for being so short with everyone! When I stay away from chocolate I feel a lot more calm and can cope with things more easily. I just googled this and am relieved to find that it’s not just me! I wonder if it is all the trans-fat and msgs in some of it I have yet to try it out with organic dark chocolate.
I’ve been on Citalopram for a few months. I got a bump up in milligrams and was finally feeling some motivation to do things again. Suddenly, I was irritable, very depressed, crying, thinking thoughts I hadn’t thought in months – Why!?! I suspected several chocolate bars I had the night before (something I don’t often do) I Googled it – sigh, wish it wasn’t true, but obviously it is!!! The word needs to be spread. Wonder how many of my “moods” in years past were chocolate related . . .
Hi,
Thought I’d put in my 2 cents worth. When I was younger I hated chocolate… made me sick to eat it. Now that I’m through menopause I love it. Makes me feel wonderful when I eat it but for only a day unless I keep eating it. My understanding is that chocolate stimulates seritonion production in the brain. If your brain is producing enough seritonion if the first place and you take or eat something that causes the body to produce more seritonion then you are going to become more irritable and wired feeling… general you’ll feel awful. However, as you age your body may not produce the proper amount of seritonion that your brain needs, so that’s why lots of older women crave chocolate. It up’s your seritonion level for a short time. The down side is that within a few hours the seriotonion levels start to drop off unless you keep eating chocolate. As it drops off you will start to become depressed for about 3 days until your body settles back into it’s normal amount of seritonion, then you will not feel depressed anymore. If you are young and don’t have a craving for chocolate then your brain is probably making the right amount of seritonion for you, so when you eat it it could possibly make you feel horrible. So don’t eat it. My theory is that your brain has too seritonion. In about 3 days it should wear off. That’s my experience with chocolate over the years. Hope this helps.
i am so glad to have found this list of comments. i suffer from depression after eating chocolate. my friends laugh at me and say right!?
I recently noticed after drinking hot chocolate without milk that I feel very depressed. After reading your comments I now know that I am not crazy.
Wow! This is the first time I’ve heard of anyone else getting into a “funk” from eating chocolate. My hubby and I have suspected for years that chocolate was NOT my friend but never could find anything to support it. When you’re a woman especially, it’s easy for everyone to blame the bad mood on your period, kids making you batty, and just the “daily grind”. What makes it worse is how much chocolate is pushed and the widely held belief that it’s good for your mood. Well, the past week is the last straw for me and it’s time to give it up totally. Hubby and I were talking about that maybe I needed *medication* for goodness sakes! I wonder how many folks end up under treatment and the culprit is chocolate:( Maybe it *should* be considered a legal drug like alcohol & nicotine.
What a relief to find this thread…when I searched around last Halloween after I’d eaten a lot of chocolate and become severely irritated and depressed (I only eat chocolate when I have it around the house), the only info said chocolate elevated your mood, so I thought I was making it up. When it happened again this year I felt pretty sure it was something real — and now that I see others have the same problem I am definitley not going to be eating chocolate again. After eating chocolate I am irritable and unable to accomplish normal tasks for a number of days, also after eating a number of pieces of chocolate last night this morning I woke up with a terrible headache.
Thanks for posting this. I am able to connect the dots on this one. I guess I never believed how chocolate would effect me until I was able (with great difficulty) to stay away from it for four days. I noticed rashes disappearing, better mood, better sleep and easier time focusing on tasks at work and home. Before reading this, I thought chocolate helped with low energy and depression.
I am so glad to have found this site. I have had terrible depression after eating chocolate. I love it too. Especially dark. However I started noticing the connection over the last few years. This past Halloween we had a lot of it left over and I could not resist. Well I paid for it with the worst depression I have had in a while. I am swearing off it now as a little chocolate is not worth feeling so bad I don’t even want to get out of bed in the morning or all day for that matter. I guess for some of us it is just a trigger and may not effect other people that way, but it sure does me! Thanks for sharing your stories! God bless! Kathy
OMG…I have spent the past three days totally and completely
depressed. I thought I was losing my mind. I ate a few pieces
of dark chocolate a few nights ago and then started craving it
the next two nights. I ate it again those next two nights and
the extent of the craving felt like a drug calling to me…I ate
dinner and all I could think about is eating more chocolate. By this morning, I was feeling like I wanted to literally die…Crying so hard, I couldn’t stop. I’ve never quite had an experience like this before.
Dark chocolate used to give me a headache, but this time it didn’t.
It just caused me to have a complete mental collapse… It’s
a scary feeling! So glad to have found this site….and see that
others are having similar issues. (not that I’m happy you guys
are having similar issues…but happy to see that chocolate for
some can be a real problem)
For years I have noticed that chocolate gives me terrible anxiety. I am vegan so I only eat chocolate with no milk but some kinds are worse than others.
Last nght I was awake most of the night with the worst anxiety I have ever had in my life.
My mother killed herself and now I know why. She ate a LOT of chocolate! She said she would lie awake every night worrying. I am now convinced it was from Chicolate!
Why don’t health care people make this public!!!! Has there ever been a study on suicide and Chocolate?
it’s probably the sugar. Sugar is known to cause depression.
R
Yes, chocolate makes me very depressed. I wondered why it is prescribed in certain health books to do good for various parts of the body. If I ate a whole bar of chocolate as is prescribed, I’d really get deeply depressed.
What I’m looking for is the chemical reason.
Amazing. I completely identify with what Wanda said, right down to considering anti-depressants because my mood swings seemed so off the wall. As depressed as I’m feeling at the moment (I visited with my Mom yesterday and she gave me a tin of my favorite CHOCOLATE cookies, and I consumed quite a few of them already), I feel better knowing there is a definite connection and what to avoid in the future. Thank you so much for sharing all your stories – very much appreciated.
Thank God for this posting….. I thought I was imagining it when the day after I eat chocolate( and I really do not like it) I cry hysterically about nothing….or very little things. I mostly avoid chocolate, but I forget the consequenses sometimes and think …No ,it must be my imagination.
when I was in my twenties I ate chocolate everyday ( even though I do not care for the taste) and was depressed for years.
Thank you all for sharing your comments. I recently noticed the connection between stress and irritability and chocolate. I decided to go ‘cold turkey’ and felt great, then when I felt I could ‘control it’ I started eating chocolate again. The moodiness came back within hours. It was as clear as night and day. I don’t know why it happens. Much like other comments, it takes me about 3 days to get back to my normal self – so long as I don’t keep eating any. The biggest challenge is that I love sweet things, so I’m learning to bake other types of goodies. Best of luck to you all.
I broke up with my girlfriend on Christmas, It was after eating a box of Lindors, Something totally out of character for me to do! I realize as little as a recess piece will affect me, and like the others, 3 days for it to clear my system. I have tried organic, dark, all types, but they all affect me! So NO chocolate for me!!!
I eat healthy dark chocolate. It has no refined sugar or added caffein. I feel great! In fact, I’m off my Lexapro. It’s called Xocai. It’s not cheap but is well worth the cost, not just for chocolate lovers.
This thread has really enlightened me.
I especially like Wanda’s post. I’ve been suffering on and off bouts of depression for a while now and had been on anti depressants before. Last year I decided to give up chocolate for lent and other refined sugars and noticed an immediate lift. But started the chocolate again afterwards and didn’t figure the link. Anyway back on lent again- a week now and my mood is just lifting. I was on the verge of going for anti depressants again, just prior to this as my mood swings, irritabilty, poor sleep, poor motivation, bouts of nervousness and anger were just too much to bear. And I used chocolate believing that I needed it to lift these moods, or get me through the day, when it was probably exascerbating them.
I think studies need to be done. How many people think they are depressed or are prescribed anti depressants when the culprit may be something in the diet like chocolate? Coffee also makes me cranky too.
I have the same problem with chocloate. Was diagnosed years ago to have excessive levels of copper. Chocolate is high in copper as are nuts. I have a similar problem with depresson after eating nuts. Could be a connection. Google cooper toxicity.
I have so much chocolate every day, especially since I turned 14 a few weeks ago from all the leftovers and presents of chocolate and the past couple of days I have been so depressed. I am so jealous of movie stars and lately I have been obsessed over Emma Watson and can’t stop thinking about how perfect and lucky she is and I just randomly start crying when I think about her.
Lately I’ve been worring about how much chocolate I consume and now i have the answer to my depression!! yay
Sorry, just to continue on with my comment, I wanted to ask if this could be due to the fact that your taste buds change every 7 years and now I’m 14 that I have this alergy to chocolate?
If you want to be certain it’s the chocolate and not another ingredient such as sugar, artificial sweetener, or artificial flavor that’s making you depressed or grumpy, try eating pure chocolate with nothing added to it. You can get unsweetened baking chocolate at the grocery store: Ghirardelli is available in a 4OZ bar. Be warned: unsweetened, pure chocolate is the most disgusting tasting stuff on the planet. It’s the sugar added that makes us crave a substance that by itself tastes so awful. And in nature, when something tastes awful, that’s a sign that it isn’t good for us… regardless of what the proponents of these things say.
Paky: When you crave chocolate, eat pure, unsweetened chocolate. You’ll soon develop an aversion to anything chocolate because you’ll be reminded of how awful it tastes when it hasn’t been “doctored up” with sugar and flavors. Then, develop a habit of eating fresh fruit. Have you visited the produce department and feasted on all the beautiful, colorful, fresh, juicy, nutritious fruits that are produced by rain and sunshine and fertile soil all over the world for your personal enjoyment? You will feel so much better about yourself when you eat fresh fruit that was designed for your body, rather than a processed “food” like chocolate. And one more thing: you’re prettier than you think you are. All women are.
yes me too if i eat chocolate i feel tearfull the next day grumpy and on edge maybe its sugar overdose its the same with white and rose wine only red is ok
I think I’ve just realized this might affect me as well. But I am already on SSRI and antianxiety pills. I had chocolate last night, and again tonight, and just made the connection afterwards, worried about what I could be in for tomorrow.
Don’t believe all the hype that chocolate is good for you even in small doses. I am in bed now because I ate some chocolate last night before bed, not very much, just some of M & M’s. I woke this morning very depressed and I have been unable to do anything all day. Very depressed, tired, and unmotivated. Also, anxious and unorganized, almost similar to ADD. I tested postive to a chocolate allergy on a food allergy test and even though I have always craved it, I never made the connection between my mood swings and chocolate until the test. What I gathered from the test that might help someone is that one of the ingredients in chocolate that can cause a reaction is tyramine. I tested positive to every othr food that has tyramine in it also, unfortunately foods I love. I have read that a food craving is not necessarily what your body needs, but can actually be the last thing your body needs. Your cravings can be your worst enemy. That was my findings about myself anyway. Pasta was also a favorite, but I found I was sensitive to gluten.
I would recommend a food sensitivity and allery test. My doctor is an integrated Physician and he uses labs that others doctors may not credit, but these labs can uncover so much more that some standard labs.
If I stick to my elimination diet, I feel like a different person. Today, is a much needed reminder that even a little of a bad thing can cause a lot of woe.
Hope this helps and thanks for all your posts. It encouraged me that “chocolate depression” is not in our heads, or maybe I should say, it is in our heads, because it effects our neurotransmitters. I think saying that we are not crazy is better.
Hugs,
Janetwm
Sorry, I forgot to add. My doctor told me that when I had eaten something that adversely effected me, including moods, to take an Alka Seltzer Gold and it would help alleviate the symptoms. IT WORKS! Even with depression and anxiety. Hope this helps.
Hugs again, Janet
I truely thought I was on top of having bouts of depression. I had not felt this low for 2 years. Nothing in my personal life had changed to bring on an episode of depression. However I must say I had 100 grams of dark choclate before bed last night. From the moment I woke up I felt very misserable and sad. The fact is if we want to we can always find something to be sad about. I don’t have enough friends, my friends don’t treat me right, I hate my job, I’m stupid, ugly, fat. The list is endless.
Conversly we can always find something to be positive about.
If chocolate does cause my mind to think in a negative depressed manner I will be avoiding it. However I will say it seems this experience was cased by having chocolate before bed.