Hi all, When I reached fifty last year, I took a cold, hard look at my life and realised two things; 1) I had struggled with a weight problem all my adult life (think I have an undiagnosed eating disorder) and 2) Depression of varying severity had never been far away. From the New Year, I have really struggled with a much deeper depression and my emotional eating has just got out of hand, put on a stone in six months on an already large frame. And I'm also menapausal.
I've never known whether the depression prompts the eating or whether the weight issue prompts the depression and I guess it doesn't really matter, both need attending to.
Doctor has diagnosed me with severe depression and I have started to take Fluoxetine - just from last Wednesday. I can't say my mood has lifted yet and it's probably a bit too soon to notice but my eating cycles have changed a bit for the better and I was able to stir myself out of my weekend laziness to clear the garden up yesterday.
So my question, can I expect to have more control over my emotional eating compulsions on this drug?