Bill Wilson, MD: Feeling depressed with a bigger appetite? It may be CARB syndrome

You know, you go to your doctor and say, I'm not sleeping well or I'm depressed. You're going to get 10 different diagnosis. The problem is, most of those diagnoses are not the classic disorders that were around 50 years from now. They're carb syndrome. You know, major depression is rare. It's rare as. Hence teeth. It's always been rare. Nowadays you go and you see your doctor and say, well, I feel depressed, but my appetite. You know, to get diagnosed in the past, you had to lose your appetite to lose weight. If you didn't do that, you couldn't get diagnosed. Well, most people going in now, they say, well, I have an increased appetite and weight gain and I feel depressed. And the geniuses at DSM said, well, what is this? It looks like depression, sort of, but not totally. What do we do, guys? Well, let's call this new one atypical depression. So if you look at dsm, you know, that's what most people are being diagnosed with. Atypical depression is carb syndrome. It has absolutely nothing to do with major depression.