You make it sound like you only have a choice between the two? Do you think that regaining weight is going to make you less depressed?
They're seperate things, not a choice of one or the other. You can be thin and happy, fat and happy, thin and depressed, or fat and depressed.
Personally my first choice would be thin and happy. My second choice, would be fat and happy. Third choice, thin and depressed. Fat and depressed, I'd prefer to avoid - I know what that's like and have to say "no thank you" to that.
If you really think that you can't be thin and happy, and believe you have a shot at fat and happy, I guess I'd say go off the diet (because I value quality of life, over quantity), but are you sure that's your only option?
Personally, I'd shoot for thin and happy. If that meant antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, weekly counseling... whatever it took to have a shot at both.
Now it is possible that the way you're dieting can be contributing to depression (I get very physically and mentally run-down when I cut calories too low, so to be reasonably happy while dieting, I have to sacrifice speed. I'm ok with slow progress, but not no progress).
Before my doctors recommended supplements, I thought vitamins and herbal supplements were largely useless. Then my neurologist put me on 1000 mg folic acid for memory and energy, and my general practioner but me on high doses of fish oil and vitamin D for physical pain issues (and they've helped my mood also). I'm also on amitriptyline and cyclobenzaprine for sleep (without the meds I don't spend enough time in deep sleep. I sleep, but I don't reach the deepest, restorative stages).
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