![]() When it’s my own health and happiness on the line, though, I fully cannot be bothered. My job was to make other people happy with my cooking, so I hauled my useless body out of bed and into work by 6:30 each morning no matter how despondent I felt. When I ran a food cart-easily the low point in my lifelong relationship with mental illness, by the way-I never once opened late because I was too depressed to get out of bed. (Professional kitchens can be cesspools of, among other things, physical and emotional abuse, self-loathing, and truly destructive alcoholism the industry is long overdue for a reckoning.) However, a professional chef’s relationship to the physical task of cooking hinges on external validation, which differentiates it from the home cook’s experience. Many prominent chefs have frankly discussed their struggles with addiction and mental illness in recent years, which is a good thing. Basically, any condition that makes it difficult to navigate life is likely to mess with your relationship with food. Eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder ( ARFID) rarely present without comorbid depression and anxiety disorders the same goes for personality disorders, learning disorders, chronic illnesses, and drug and alcohol addiction. Depression does a number on your ability to feed yourself, but it’s very rare to struggle with depression alone. How depression can impact your dietĪppetite is easily swayed by one’s emotional state, so for people with mental illnesses, food can be a source of constant anguish. Text “START” to 741-741 to reach The Crisis Text Line or call The Trevor Project’s hotline at (866) 488-7386 Trans Lifeline can be reached at (877) 565-8860 in the US and (877) 330-6366 in Canada. If you’re going through a mental health crisis and need to talk to someone, there are several organizations that provide 24/7 crisis support and general counseling free of charge. Bookmark it for later if you need to, and/or skim the headers before diving in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eating is a prerequisite for life, so it makes perverse sense that, for many people, it’s among the first victims of a depressive episode.Ī friendly warning: this piece mentions-but doesn’t explicitly discuss-depression, eating disorders, and addiction, among other mental illnesses. Depression has a sneaky way of creeping into all aspects of your life, and making you not care about any of them. ![]()
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