The British Journal of Psychiatry (2007) 191: 351-352. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.033746
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Chocolate craving when depressed: a personality marker

GORDON PARKER, MD, PhD, DSc and JOANNA CRAWFORD, BPsych

School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Correspondence: Professor Gordon Parker, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia. Email: g.parker{at}unsw.edu.au

Declaration of interest None. Funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (Program Grant 222708) and a grant-in-aid from Pfizer International.

We examined links between chocolate craving in people who are depressed and both personality style and atypical depressive symptoms, with a web-based questionnaire completed by nearly 3000 individuals reporting clinical depression. Chocolate was craved by half of the respondents (more so by women), judged as beneficial for depression, anxiety and irritability, and associated specifically with personality facets encompassed by the higher-order construct of neuroticism. The simple question of depression-associated chocolate craving appeared an efficient discriminator of DSM–IV atypical depression symptoms.


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