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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A fat person who can dance is not necessarily healthy.

For example:

https://twitter.com/movieman_1970/status/1165778135494709248?s=21

I don’t think any doctor would consider him to be healthy. RIP. The “psychiatrist” is proponent of advocating for “obesity is healthy” by calling it “body positivity”. Shocking if she is truly a medical provider.   Possibly she’s the fat dancer and she’s just promoting her blog....[/quote]

OP here.  
I am a psychiatrist.  I live in the city now and send my patients with eating disorders to an eating disorders clinic, so I don’t deal with this anymore.  However, I was surprised when I started reading that there was really a lot of similarity between the change in mindset needed to gain weight with anorexia and to lose weight with obesity.  And a lot of it has to do with accepting and loving your body, as well as finding other ways to manage difficult emotions outside of eating or restricting caloric intake.

This insistence that people hate themselves and their bodies isn’t helpful for anyone, fat or thin.  [/quote]

So, as a doctor, when you see anorexics/eating disorder patients, you send them to a specialized eating disorders clinic?

But, when you see morbidly obese patients, you refer them to body positivity blogs, websites, instagram accounts?  So they can feel better about themselves?  At what point does a morbidly obese patient receive medical intervention?  Surely there is a point where “acceptance” needs to stop and intervention begins.[/quote]

No.  
That is not what I said.  Do you really think I would give a morbidly obese person a book about a young woman’s battle with anorexia as treatment?  
When I was living in a small town and seeing anorexic patients, I also referred them to body positivity blogs, including a book that I bought off of one of them, which I shared with the nutritionist I was working with.  I was completely in over my head, and these young people were dying, but they refused to go anywhere else.  I read a lot, and obviously where there were medical interventions to be made, I made them.   However, most of the work needed to be done on people’s thinking, and I needed to know how people were thinking, and how others got past it.  I found these blogs and books particularly interesting at the time.  [/quote]

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