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

A noted expert on women and depression offers a guide to balancing womens relationship to eating alcohol and overthinking. Based on extensive original research Eating Drinking Overthinking is the first book to show women how they can navigate the often painful and destructive worlds of the title. . While it is widely known that women suffer from depression in disproportionately large numbers what is less well known is the extent to which many women use food and alcohol to regulate their moods. Integrating the insights of her popular first book Women Who Think Too Much Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema has written a pathbreaking and highly readable account of the ways in which eating drinking and overthinking can wreak havoc on womens emotional well-being physical health relationships and careers.. As Eating Drinking Overthinking reveals the coping strategies that lead women into the toxic triangle can be turned around to guide them out of it. Instead of letting negative thoughts gain the advantage Nolen-Hoeksema provides exercises to help women manage their thoughts and maintain a balanced perspective.