Eating, Drinking, Overthinking: The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression--and How Women Can Break Free (Abridged)

Why do so many women drink and eat to excess and then spend their days regretting it? An expert on women and depression explains what can be done to treat and prevent it.

Depression is a common and debilitating problem among women, though it rarely occurs in a vacuum. As Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's original research shows, overthinking-a tendency to ruminate on problems rather than seek solutions-often co-exists with unhealthy eating habits and/or heavy drinking. In fact, 80 percent of women who ...