Antidepressants such as SSRIs can cause weight gain in some people and weight loss in others. We explain how that works:
1. Weight loss is often about their effect of SSRIs on increasing indifference which may then reduce emotional eating.
2. Weight gain is with SSRIs is often about their effects on increasing someone’s indifference in their food choices.

This clip explains how SSRI/SNRI affect sensitivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7LwL5EmAs

Other antidepressants like Tricyclic antidepressants and Mirtazapine can cause sedation because of their antihistamine effects on increasing appetite. Thats why some medications which cause drowsiness also cause increased appetite.

SSRIs include aropax/paroxetine, zoloft/sertraline, prozac/fluoxetine, luvox/fluvoxamine, lexapro/escitalopram and cipramil/citalopram. The mostly interact with the SERT protein to increase serotonin residence in the synapse. They minimally affect the Histamine receptor.

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) include endep/amitriptyline, anafranil/clomipromine, dothiepin, nortriptyline etc. Generally have significant effect on Serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake (SERT and NET) as well as hitting specific serotonin receptors (e.g. clomipramine avidly binds 5-HT2c and 5-HT6). They bind Alpha1 and potently bind H1.

Mirtazepine (Avanza) is a tetracyclic antidepressant, also called a “noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant”, but it’s not very specific. While it has negligible effect on serotonin or noradrenaline reuptake (negligible SERT or NET effect) but strongly interacts with a number of other receptors including serotonergic 5-HT2C, 5-HT3, Alpha2A, Alpha2C and H1.

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Yesterday I caught myself emotional eating. I made myself a hot fudge sundae at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. If you find yourself grazing in the kitchen and not knowing why, get your head out of the fridge for a sec to get a grip on what’s going on:

True hunger develops slowly over time.
Emotional hunger comes on suddenly.

If you feel full, all good.
If you feel guilty it may have been some emotional eating.

Please do not make yourself wrong if you realize you too have been emotional eating. Food and emotions get complicated. To empower yourself, try to stay conscious about whether you’re truly hungry or you’re feeding emotional hunger.

Try this:

If you can name the deeper feeling that’s making you reach for a sundae in the middle of the day, that self awareness gives you the power to make a choice.

There’s nothing wrong with having a sundae at 2pm if that empowers you. Being conscious about what you’re doing and WHY is the key.

I promised I would report back and today I’m following my own advice, by paying attention to what I’m feeling and it’s working- I haven’t fed my emotions, instead I’ve just felt them.

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