Consider the carbohydrate craver once counseled by Wurtman, whose cravings were clearly out of control.
In the summer, the woman worked in an office all day and regularly walked for exercise after work. But as soon as the days grew shorter and the temperature dropped, the women told Wurtman she would go home and hole up, too tired to go anywhere.
One evening, feeling more depressed than usual, she got a craving for a brownie from her favorite bakery, four blocks away. She bundled up and walked to the bakery to get some brownies.
"I have to have those brownies," she told Wurtman.
She would buy them many times a week during the winter, Wurtman recalls. "She was driven to go out in the cold, icy wind to get the brownie. That's the nature of the craving."
And that is the type of craving linked with seasonal depression, she says.
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