I've always had issues with eating whenever I get sad/depressed. It's like I could be starving before, but if something happens to make me depressed, it's like my appetite just disappears in an instant. I can try to make myself eat, but it's pretty much forced and I don't enjoy it at all.
Normally, I don't struggle with depression. I have my ups and I have my downs. Anxiety sometimes make me depressed for no reason, but for the most part, it's not much of a problem for me. I've been depressed a lot recently, though, because I was just recently broken up with by my boyfriend of almost 1 year. Yes, we still talk. Yes, we still plan on being best friends. Talking to him has actually been helping me with the pain for some reason.
It's been almost 5 days since he said he couldn't continue the relationship. I wish I could say that the depression is gone now and that I'm no longer crying, but unfortunately it's not. I cry every day (though now I mostly seem to cry at night after I finish talking to him). Last night when I cried, I had been planning on eating this microwaveable pizza for a dinner. Right when it finished cooking, he decided to shower and go to bed. I instantly became depressed (because I wanted to keep talking) and lost my appetite. I tried eating the pizza anyway, but I couldn't, and ended up throwing most of it away (waste of over $3!)
Most people I know either eat a lot when they're depressed, or they sleep a lot. I do neither. I sleep normally and go to bed when I'm tired. I'm not an insomniac by any means. Depression has no effect on my sleep schedule. It does affect my eating, though, by diminishing my appetite. I'm at the point now where I don't want to eat a big meal for fear that I'll waste a large portion of it. So far today the only thing I've "eaten" is a coffee milk drink (which fills me up pretty well).
Does anyone else have the same trouble eating when depressed? If so, what are some ways you can get around that and still maintain regular meals and be healthy?