Signs of Change: Anxiety
February 15th, 2007 at 11:54 am (Physical)
Maybe it’s a strange thing to talk about on a fitness blog (but, I am a therapist after all), and maybe it’s even stranger to lump one’s anxieties into a category designed to celebrate signs of weight-loss progress, but that’s what you get when you come to the Chronicles. WE LIKE TO KEEP YOU GUESSING.
The thing is, I always knew that my binge eating and general lack of regulation was probably masking an underlying depression. It made perfect sense — major depression runs on both sides of my family. I’ve suffered some form of low-grade depression, on and off, since I can remember. (Of course, I’ve also suffered from morbid obesidy since I can remember, so YOU DO THE MATH) But, as it turns out, the less I use food to cope, the less bingeing and mindless eating I do, the more utterly unremarkable my food habits become, the more anxious I am. Not depressed. I guess the depression was just what wormed its way to the surface. The fears and anxieties remained hidden, their voices muffled under a mountain of food.
