Most of us experience food temptations or cravings from time to time, but it’s called emotional eating when it leads to mental and physical health problems such as obesity. In order to determine if eating habits cross into emotional eating territory, it’s helpful to first review the purposes of eating.
Read MoreFor the last few decades, there has been a growing expectation that we ought to feel happy all the time, that this should be normal. Mental health experts question this assumption, making a distinction between experiences that are “hedonic” (pleasurable, or superficially happy) and those that are “eudaimonic” (meaningful). They also tell us that negative emotions like anxiety, fear, guilt, anger and even sadness can actually be constructive—if they are channeled well. But what if sadness dips into depression?
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