If you have any experience at all with depression – whether it’s you, a family member, or a friend – you’re probably all too aware of the havoc the mental condition can wreak on your weight. Both weight gain and weight loss are symptoms of depression, and on the “How Much Are We Talkin’ About Here?” scale, both usually tip closer to the significant, rather than the slight, side of the spectrum.

Kevin Federline is one of the most recent famous names to openly talk about his depression. In a recent interview with Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos, Federline tags his break up with Britney Spears and overall unhappiness with himself as causes of his depression.

“A number of things between, I mean, everybody knows what happened with me and Brit. I’m not going to say that’s the total cause of it but, I mean, just not being happy with myself was probably the main part of my depression,” he said.

“Once you get depressed, you don’t really feel like doing anything. You’re kind of discouraged about yourself and then the weight gain too, or that makes me more depressed,” he said. “I mean, it’s a combination of all of those things.”

He doesn’t talk about how he managed the depression specifically, simply stating that things keep “getting better and better” and that his whole family has “gotten so much better from where [they] were,” but Federline tells Menounos that in order to tackle the weight he agreed to sign on as a contestant on VH-1′s “Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp” – an offer that apparently came at the perfect time:

“They called me and they asked me if I wanted to do it and I had maybe 24 hours to decide because the show started taping the next day after that weekend,” he said. “It just couldn’t have come at a better time.”

Kudos to you, Federline.

“Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp” airs next Monday (February 8, 2010), and if you want more information about depression check out Psych Central’s Depression Information and Treatment as well as this recent study about how weight loss can help lessen symptoms of depression.

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