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Are you sure you have the causality right? Based on my own experience, it seems possible that whatever causes you to start eating processed food also causes your depression. And that having the bandwidth to make your own food only happens when the thing that causes your depression is gone.

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You're right but I also wouldn't be at all surprised if there were a feedback loop between eating junk food and feeling various kinds of bad. I usually feel my best physically eating mostly fruits and vegetables.

I had a longer post containing family history and how I believe mine to be more genetics oriented then anything else. I decided that was inappropriate. The tldr, however, is I only have one blood relative in the past 3 generations who hasn't been diagnosed with chronic depression or has substance abuse issues. Both killed all the men in the previous generation by the time they were 45.

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