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

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!

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:11:23 +0000

Hmmmmm…. This really makes you think man am I depressed. JK :) But on the serious side I do not believe that chocolate causes depression; I just feel that it might be used to relieve depression. People who are depressed often do a lot of something like over eating , not eating , sleeping alot, or even shopping alot. So I can understand the correlation between the two. I have heard that chocolate has be used in place of sex as well so you never know why people crave it so much.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:37:19 +0000

The minute I saw this blog post, I had to eat some chocolate. Anyway… could it be the sugar in chocolate, rather than the cocoa? I find sugar has a HUGE impact on my mood (see my blog post related to this at http://keagiles.blogspot.com/2010/03/read-it.html. I’m working on a blog post right now about dark dark chocolate…

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:18:58 +0000

Gee

What if you are not depressed, and eat more than 12 servings of chocolate a month?

Some people in the medical field recommend having some dark chocolate every day – if chocolate causes depression, people following that advice should show a dramatic spike in depression symptoms.

By: Cheryl Sullivan

Cheryl Sullivan — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:40:32 +0000

Interesting. What about the study by Debra Zellner that found that women in Spain do not crave chocolate as much as American women do? Her belief is that there is a psychological component to the cravings in American culture, but that there probably isn’t any neurological impact. Would be interesting to see if the depression/chocolate connection is true in Spain.