Oh, wow! I've been reading and carbs really do appear to help depression, but can also become an addiction and a bad one...

Have I not been just craving carbs because my body knows they help me feel better, but have I become addicted to them because of it? I'll never forget telling my old t that I'd run out of soft pretzels and literally felt like I might cry one night, then went through the entire kitchen eating several things to try to make up for them not being there.

Wow, I had no clue. The stuff I'm reading sounds like me...

So, there is a payoff for the carbs and it's almost a natural AD, but it can also be a bad thing...

Hmm, it gives alternatives to the carbs. I need to check into that as well. If I don't have the carbs when my body's craving them, I don't do nearly as well because (like I just read), there's an almost immediate reward mood-wise.

I've done this my entire life. I remember being a little girl and getting bread (1/4 loaf at a time) and balling it up into dough balls and eating it...HAD to have it. This has been a life-long craving in my body.

Wow, and wow. I had no idea but have become acutely aware of this in the last 8 years or so. I have to find out more.

KD