I once tried to explain depression to someone as like if one day you gradually started to lose both your sense of taste and your ability to feel full. And you donβt know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying. You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there is no pay off. You just know it will taste like mashed potatoes. You just know you will still be hungry. So you stop bothering with seasonings. Then you stop bothering to use ingredients you used to like. Then you start to wonder what the point of eating is because there is no payoff. You still feel hungry and youβre sick of the taste and you donβt know if you will ever enjoy food again and you donβt know why this is happening.
If someone comes up to you in this scenario and says,Β βWell have you tried spicing your food? Using different ingredients? Eating foods you used to love?β It isnβt necessarily helpful because the reason you stopped doing all that in the first place is that everythingβ¦tastedβ¦like mashedβ¦potatoes.
