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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a hospital with the sickest patients, the ones who have 4 or 5 chronic diseases and are now in their final year of life.

Every. single. one. of these patients brought their chronic disease and shit quality of life on themselves due to lifestyle factors that were entirely within their control:  smoking, excess drinking, and bad diet/obesity.  So, so much obesity. This is in a large DMV hospital btw.

Their lifetime of choices is now affecting us all, because we are directly paying for their very, very expensive health care via Medicaid & Medicare.

Someone is going to post now about how this ^^^ is entirely the result of poverty vs. privilege, and lack of access to preventative health care, and health disparities etc etc.  Not the case in my big hospital: the majority of these fat, sick people were middle income, one-time professionals and/or well-paid tradesmen & blue collar workers with gold-plated health insurance.  Lots of WMATA drivers and mechanics, public school teachers, city/state/federal office workers, etc.

I do feel sorry for them, yes, but I also inwardly judge them for bringing this hell onto themselves.  And when their fat family members shuffle in to see them clutching their bags of fried Chik-fil-A and Popeyes and stink up their hospital rooms, I judge them silently too.

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I don't doubt that you are right in your comments. Though I am coming from this from a different angle (but amazingly similar).
As someone who suffers from extreme anorexia, I am hospitalized quite often.  Yes, it's technically brought on myself.  I am getting treatment for it, but there are bumps in the road.

I am very aware of how the doctors and nurses are judging me the entire time.  You don't hide it well.  So ya know what, a little compassion goes a long way.  Believe it or not, you may even become a happier person who does a better job in your chosen career.[/quote]

DP. I don't think you can say that anorexia is all that similar to overeating, even though it may seem that way since they both have to do with eating. Anorexia is a fairly severe mental illness. It's not normal for people to have such a distorted body image that they want to starve themselves. Overeating, on the other hand, is something that many/most of us would do, if we decided to stop caring about our health. I guess there are some people who genuinely don't ever feel like eating junk food, but for many of us, we do. I mean, you think I don't feel like eating a family sized container of my favorite ice-cream right now? I do. But I won't. I've never, on the other hand, had the desire to starve myself.

In other words, many of us would be obese if we decided to submit to our urges and just lounge around all day eating crap. But not many of us would be thin to the point of being dangerously underweight and unhealthy if we could eat whatever we wanted regardless of the consequences.[/quote]

Obesity can be the result of mental illness similar to anorexia. It can spring from depression, anxiety, or past sexual trauma. Have some compassion. Some people respond to stress by losing their appetite - others stress eat. Your personal experience (sample size of 1) is not the whole human experience .

I love dessert, but the idea of eating a whole family size container of anything sounds revolting. I just wouldn't want to do it. My stomach would hurt. People do feel full or uncomfortable at a certain point. I don't use my personal experience to say that's how it must be for everyone or even most people. What a limited world view.[/quote]

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