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My short answer would be no.
Still, when depressed, I tend to skip meals, which I do believe exacerbates feeling low. Sometimes, when I feel low, if I happen to eat a pretty full meal, I notice I can feel better after eating. I keep high protein nutritional shakes around, so that I can easily get some nutrition when I am too depressed to put together a meal. They are not as mood-improving as real food.
If my apartment becomes disorganized - that provokes anxiety, which provokes depression. If I can somehow get the ambition to put things in order, then I am apt to improve a lot. It's just so hard to do that, once I become depressed. It sure sounds - even to me - like laziness. Yet, I've always been considered a diligent worker on any job I've ever had. I tend to be very thorough about how I do things.
My chart at the facility where I get care has something down about some kind of OCD type thing. I really don't know exactly what, but a pdoc mentioned seeing it to me, and I was only half paying attention due to being upset at the time.
My apartment tends to be either very neat or rather a disgrace. Either I'm fussing over keeping things real tidy, or I'm just tossing stuff around to land wherever it happens to land. This is cyclical and has gone on all my life. I'm not one to just habitually do things in an organized fashion. Basically, I don't have good habits.
I know that got off the food subject. I'm just trying to see what I can correlate with the ups and downs.
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