Does depression cause obesity?

I'm not sure if depression directly causes obesity, but it certainly can influence it. When a person is depressed they can often find comfort in eating, even a few extra snacks in between meals can tip the balance between a healthy weight and being overweight. When depression kicks in it can be harder to care about the simple things we know we should. Also it can sometimes be a spiral where you can get slightly overweight and it can influence your self perception and lead to depression, where then you can eat because your depressed and it makes matters worse. I do think they can be inter related but not always. For some people this will be true, and for others perhaps not.

inter related, depends on what the person will do when he is depressed. obesity has something to do with genetics... to answer the question, both yes... n_n but on the 2nd question, obesity causes depression? depends on the person again, if he loves his obese body, he wont be depressed about it...

i think obesity is another complication of depression. which we should avoid because we are not just prawning in time of depression we are ruining our whole life.

Some people do have the tendancy to eat more while they are depression expecially stuff like choclate, cheese etc which results in Obesity. Obesity can cause depression too because when one is obese they tend to get worried and suffer from a lot of Obesity based illnesses and even suffer from people making fun of them and teasing them etc.

Yeah although indirectly. May peope, including myself, tends to eat more when depressed. But maybe not to the point og ebesity maybe a little fatter and fatter everyday.. LOLS

Yes,at least i think so!When i am depression,i always eat more food,such as choclate and cakes.I know that is hamful,but i can't control myself.How can i do?Anyone who can help me?