How can overeating intensify depression?

Overeating can intensify underlying depression by increasing the feelings of worthlessness and the self-punishment that keep a depression going. A woman who eats too much often berates herself for not being in control of her eating. The more women beat up on themselves for their "bad behavior," the more they create an internal dialogue that they seek to avoid -- by eating more.

In this way, an underlying depression can be covered over by an increasingly toxic relationship to the self. This situation creates layers and layers of depression, which can obscure the underlying, possibly meaningful, depression, which may in fact contain a "gift.

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