Comments on: Do You Eat Chocolate to Relieve Depression–or Does Chocolate Make You Depressed?

By: betty

betty — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:06:52 +0000

In chocolates ingredients:

Cocoa solids contain alkaloids such as theobromine and phenethylamine, which have physiological effects on the body.
It has been linked to serotonin levels in the brain. Some research found that chocolate, eaten in moderation, can lower blood pressure
As sugar is there its energy booster.
Milk as ingredient is good for calcium
Nuts have high fat content also protein, Vit E, mag, phos, etc phytonutrients in nuts.

By: Marta

Marta — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:44:36 +0000

Chocolate can cause depression, rage, paranoia, irritability, and fatigue. I’ve been doing “seat of the pants” research on this for years. I’m not a scientist, but I’ve found articles about the negative effects of chocolate. It has a neurotoxin called salsolinol. It contains alkaloids like theobromine (NOT caffeine) that may contribute to moodiness. It’s also toxic to your liver.

I have chronic depression anyway and always have, and I find that avoiding sugar, especially chocolate, helps me stay calm. Eating one brownie puts me in a deep, paranoid depression for up to a week. If I eat a lot of it, I get horrible migraines, and when I avoid it I don’t get migraines at all. I consider chocolate a mild drug. It has similar properties to marijuana. I think more research should be done on this so-called health food. I’m especially concerned about kids eating it!! Maybe we shouldn’t prescribe them ritalin or prozac – maybe we should just take away their chocolate!!

By: Bob Hall

Bob Hall — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:23:43 +0000

Well I’ve just gone to get some chocolate out of a chocolate tin and someone has filled it with dried pasta! Now I feel depressed.

By: Judy F. Eason

Judy F. Eason — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:27:41 +0000

|I am very glad I found this article about chocolate. I eat Dark Chocolate every night,when ||I retire
and sleep I dream alot, and sometimes nightmares. when I awake I feel down and depressed, so that
I don’t want to get up. when I do and have my cup of coffee.(caffeine) and eat something, I feel
better. I wonder if the two counteract the other? I plan to discontinue the chocolate right away
and hope so much that this helps me.

By: sylvia

sylvia — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:09:34 +0000

When I eat chocolate, I get depressed. I thought that chocolate was suppossed to have the opposite effect. I once ate alot of Lindt chocolate and spent the next day in horrible depression. I new then that like any other food, chocolate affects people differently. It’s an individual thing. For those that chocolate affects negatively, I believe that it’s probably an allergy with delayed immune response.

By: Alex Styles, Depression

Alex Styles, Depression — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:39:43 +0000

I have tried chocolate before and it does improve my mood and my depression just for a short time though.

By: Dominique Sutherland

Dominique Sutherland — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:44:17 +0000

For me chocolate gives me a boost of energy a bit like caffeine (though, I do not drink coffee / too bitter). So both sugar and caffeine in chocolate just gives a boost, and of course you crash when the effect is over. But it’s for the taste I eat it not for the effect.
The only thing it might create if I really eat too much of it: I can get spots on my face (I am not a teenager / I am middle age) and my liver gets a bit stressed and I may end up being irritable. So everything in moderation. And yes I am often sad, but I have a good reason for that ( grief). DS

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:58:44 +0000

If I eat too much chocolate, I feel horribly depressed the next day. It seems to be genetic, as my father experiences the same problem, but in his case feels ill rather than depressed. Neither of us noticed this problem until well after I was an adult, probably because much stronger chocolate is popular now, and the dosage is important in how bad it makes us feel. The milk chocolate we ate when I was a kid contained only 10% cacao.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:44:40 +0000

Chocolate gives me a boost of energy, and yes gives a feeling of contentment joy

By: G Hats

G Hats — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:41:50 +0000

It’s funny… i’m a very positive person. Love my life, and generally consider myself happy, definitely far from depressed. Yet… I eat chocolate at least once daily, often twice. I’m not sure how big their “Servings” are but I eat 2-3 square of lindt (or similar) dark chocolate (70% – 85%) as my usual serving. I don’t do it to self medicate, i do it because i thoroughly enjoy the taste, as well as do a lot of exercise and sometimes feel my blood sugars getting low. I definitely DO NOT think it is contributing to any depression in my life and yet it sounds like i eat more chocolate than almost anyone in that study!