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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The stigma against these drugs is very real even if no one wants to believe it. I overheard three coworkers talking at length about it the other day. All normal weight, active people deriding the fact that overweight people can just be lazy and lose weight, joking how they should start eating burgers every day if it doesn’t matter anymore, asking why they’re paying for a gym membership when they could just pay for the shots. It was very weird. There is definitely some bitterness there among some people though I don’t understand why. [/quote]

Your co-workers are very angry at the loss of what they perceived made them special. It is a blow to their self-perception. The bitterness exists because your co-workers thought themselves better than obese people, and the success of this drug is showing that assessment was misguided. There are a lot of people who have built whole identities around not being fat (some probably posting in this thread). It is going to be emotionally painful for those people to accept that they’ve picked a foundation of sand for their self-worth, and it’s now crumbling. Because many people don’t react well to that sort of blow to their self-worth, they are reacting with anger and lashing out. Your coworkers are suffering with an identity and mental health crisis.

The only people who don’t want to believe it are those who are also angry about the success of the drugs. That’s why they are lashing out. It’s too painful for them to handle the deep blow to their identity. [/quote]

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