Depression Meals
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@Wretched I call this 'sharking' the kitchen. I don't generally lower those snackspectations 'til the third or fourth pass and when I do, it's with a sigh.
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@Wretched said in Depression Meals:
I've gotten to the point where a slice of cheese is a snack. I'll sit down and share a couple of slices with my cats and oh my god that's my depression meal right there
a couple slices of cheese shared with the cats
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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My strategy is to try to pre-cook a large amount of meals once a week so that whenever I feel like I absolutely can't cook anything, I just have to throw something into the microwave. Things like Lasagna, Chili Con Carne and Chorizo in tomato sauce all work really well.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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@Groth said in Depression Meals:
My strategy is to try to pre-cook a large amount of meals once a week so that whenever I feel like I absolutely can't cook anything, I just have to throw something into the microwave. Things like Lasagna, Chili Con Carne and Chorizo in tomato sauce all work really well.
I TELL myself this before every shopping trip (the pre-cooking thing) but I never, ever, ever follow through. Respect.
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I can do this for about a week before i give up/forget/eat too much and dont save leftovers. But salmon and rice for lunch the next day is super good... mmmm hardened garlic butter.
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@Auspice said in Depression Meals:
I'll sit down and share a couple of slices with my cats and oh my god that's my depression meal right there
a couple slices of cheese shared with the cats
I have no qualifications and that's probably a good thing because if I had power over mental health patients I would literally just prescribe them all cats to solve life's problems.
(Provided they seem nice and not abusive.)
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String cheese.
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@Auspice said in Depression Meals:
a couple slices of cheese shared with the cats
Your post reminded me of how, when I was a little kid, I would ask my Mom for cheese and mustard sandwiches for lunch when everyone else had pb&j, ham or some other lunch meat.
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Like @Roz said, delivery. I don't have the willpower to do basic survival tasks.
Or, when it's really bad, some weird sort of self-harm through fasting. I unironically suspect I'm beginning to develop an eating disorder.
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@Rinel said in Depression Meals:
Or, when it's really bad, some weird sort of self-harm through fasting. I unironically suspect I'm beginning to develop an eating disorder.
tbh I've had the same fear. I'll go through bursts of starving myself (either on purpose as body hatred or due to depression) and then when I'm back on an upswing I end up binge eating for a couple days.
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Friendly reminder:
Nobody ever deserves food restriction. No matter what your dumb brain tells you.
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counterpoint: i am balding and ugly and horrible
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@Rinel said in Depression Meals:
counterpoint: i am balding and ugly and horrible
me except fat and ugly and horrible
so I flashback to all the doctors that told me I clearly just eat too much and make myself eat a meal a day (or less because 'fasting') because I'm just a hideous, gross fatty
... then invariably my anemia kicks in and I end up feeling ill so I binge eat to (badly) counteract it and... yes it's a bad cycle.
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@Kestrel said in Depression Meals:
I enjoy cooking too, but when I'm depressed, I don't want to do things I enjoy. I want to lie in a congealing pool of self-loathing and misery and stare at the wall until an hour has passed.
I do as well. However, the logic part of me forces me to get up and do certain things, because I know those things brighten my day and will help em get past my depression, even if the emotional part of me is all "Can I just lie right here and die in peace? Thanks."
On the topic of looks, counter-counterpoint: I am decently handsome if overweight, but my terrible personality more than compensates to make me unattractive.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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@Rinel FWIW, I would send you all the glorious crazy wigs if I had managed to get to the 'making lace-front wigs' part of it all, if you wanted 'em. (I know the theory, but I've only made them for dolls, not people.)
I realize this is super OT, but... fukkit, I reserve the right to tangent.
As of yesterday it's confirmed I have to get a lot of breast tissue removed due to crazy hormone hell destroying internal tissues. I'm a boob person. They are huge, literally each the size of my head. They have been huge since I was 10-11, when they went from 'nada' to DD in a year, I'm a JJ/M now. They are officially part of my personality at this point, and long time forum members probably recall them as a running joke in ye olden WORA days.
I feel you on 'this has always been here and is part of how I look (mixed bag reactions notwithstanding) and it is going away/changing in a way I feel is negative and I feel ugly/not right with myself because of it'.
I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but it will be something I find gorgeous/funny/meaningful in a decorative way, and trying to turn it into an opportunity for that.
Just know that if I had some awesome wigs that weren't full of costumey yarn/crazy dreads/glitter, I would happily send you all of them if you thought that'd help along the same vein.
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@Ominous said in Depression Meals:
I do as well. However, the logic part of me forces me to get up and do certain things.....even if the emotional part of me
honestly gtfo out of here with this
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last night for dinner I tossed a bunch of tortilla chips in a bowl, put some cheese over them, tossed it in the microwave.
I overcooked it but ate it anyway because it was there and I can't bring myself to 'waste' food.
prime depression (and a little bit 'allergies are murdering me') eating right thurr.
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Boil kettle. Open pack of fresh pasta tortellini from fridge (the stuff often keeps for a month or more, and it's not hugely expensive). Add stock cube/pot/whatever to bowl. Add boiling water. Stir until stock. Add pasta. Ignore for a bit. Eat.
It ends up like an Italian sort of won ton soup, you can pick the type of stock and what stuffing you want in the tortellini, and it's filling. I've got a plastic container with sealing lid and steam hole that'll fit a whole pack of pasta, so I just have to add boiling water, stir, add pasta, and wander off with it.
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Those packs of tortellini and a jar of alfredo sauce are a p common dinner for me. Boil tortellini, drain, add alfredo, cook a little more to heat the alfredo, maybe add some heavy cream or parm if I have them.....
It's just the right level of 'effort' that I can manage it (the fact that it is super carb rich doesn't hurt).
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
