Rat prozac
Can we wonder whether not eating has an emotional effect when even rats can use hunger as a temporary anti-depressant?
Of course, like any addictive substance, it takes bigger and bigger hits to get the same effect (smaller and smaller meals). And meanwhile, your brain loses the ability to cope without a "hit." Easy to see where that goes.
Of course, like any addictive substance, it takes bigger and bigger hits to get the same effect (smaller and smaller meals). And meanwhile, your brain loses the ability to cope without a "hit." Easy to see where that goes.
Makes perfect sense to me, although I think that some treatments take the analogy between eating disorders and addictions too far if only because the effects of malnutrition on the brain are perhaps longer-lasting than those of alcohol or speed and therefore it is more difficult to achieve a period of "sobriety"
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