How Can We Break the Cycle of Depression and Obesity?
Major depressive disorder and obesity remain two of the world’s most pressing health crises. Alone, each can cripple one’s quality of life. But together, they launch a negative feedback loop that amplifies suffering, confuses treatment, and taxes already overextended health care systems.
Consequently, a new review in The Lancet Psychiatry argues that it’s time to stop treating these conditions as separate health problems and start tackling them as intertwined disorders that demand an integrated care approach.
A Bidirectional Burden: The numbers defy logic. More than 280 million people worldwide live with depression, while nearly 900 million adults have obesity. Multiple studies have shown that the two conditions often fuel one another.
Excerpted from Psychiatrist.com
