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Depression Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods, Artificial Sweeteners (www.webmd.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that OCD is irrational. Once something has been opened, I literally can't eat it again without my brain going into an obsession about getting food poisoning or something.

My brain will be like, "I dunno, what if the power went out while you weren't home. Or while you were asleep? Who knows if the food is still good?"

I literally can't keep anything around that requires temperature control, so I mostly get what I'm going to eat that day. It's really frustrating and exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I won’t pretend to understand what you go through but I’m strongly sympathetic.

Question: from your perspective, would taking a course or two about food safety, so that a person thoroughly understands the science behind food spoiling and becoming toxic, would that help in any way with some of the thoughts/fears about eating leftovers? I fully expect you to say no, and I would definitely believe you. But I’m still curious about your perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I took several in college, which made the issue much worse tbh. Now I know for sure that if x food product can spoil in a time frame that I'll not be around to verify that my refrigerator was working the whole time, then I just can't do it.