Mental health is a huge part of your food choices, especially when you're affected by it on a day to day basis. These mindsets can effect your food choices positively or negatively. In this topic, we will be talking about different food choices that people may have if they're in a negative state of mind.
When people with mental illnesses have negative thoughts, or feelings, they might decide that a coping strategy would be to eat plenty of food. The majority of people who go through this ease their thoughts by eating junk food. This can affect your physical lifestyle in the future, which can potentially affect your state of mind, and continue to make these bad food choices. In other words, in can become a constant loop of eating, and negative thoughts. This can cause a person to potentially become obese, including other health concerns such as, diabetes, eating disorders, and in worse cases death. That's why it's so important to discuss your feelings with someone else.
When people with mental illnesses have negative thoughts, or feelings, they might decide that a way to calm down from it is to stop eating. They will suddenly lose their appetite which can cause further health concerns, especially if these practices are continued throughout their life. When someone gets into the habit of not eating, it can become a bad habit where they might skip meals, and lose their appetite a lot more. This can cause food disorders, that can potentially become incurable or even fatal, if not prevented soon enough. That's why it's so important to talk to someone about your negative thoughts, to prevent overeating, and undereating from occurring.^
during a positive state of mind, you're more likely to eat healthier foods because you have more motivation to make healthy foods for yourself. You have more motivation to actually prepare healthy foods which can actually take a long time to make unlike junk foods. Junk foods are much easier to prepare. In a positive state of mind, you have more control of what you are eating and you have a positive relationship with food.