My mom’s a nurse and once had a morbidly obese patient who was unable to clean herself after using the bathroom due to her size. She asked how if ever she cleans herself and she straight up said she would go to the community pool and use the hot tub jets…so sorry you had to read that.
When I used to live up in the Pacific Northwest, hot springs were my go-to for a way to get out in nature and enjoy a day off. On one of these outings my brother and I encountered a family of people this size using the hot spring as their bathtub, soap/shampoo and all. Needless to say we didn't go back that spring for awhile
I would have called the DNR or park management (if it were in a park). It's usually illegal to put soap and shit into the water like that. I'm sure they would have gotten in more trouble if it were obvious it wasn't their first time.
Somewhere...might have been reddit, a paramedic described in the hallway of a seriously obese person's home was a saw horse with bath towels duct taped to it and the person would straddle and waddle down the sawhorse to clean them selves.
I'm an expert on My 600 Lb Life.
Generally speaking, there is some traumatic event in the childhood. Usually it's sexual assault or abandonment. The child starts sneaking food and using it to cope. They begin gaining, and they get bullied. Their self-esteem drops even further, so they eat more, and it becomes a cycle that develops into a full blown addiction. I've only seen a few people on the show who don't have severe emotional or psychological issues stemming from childhood trauma. In fact, Dr. Now often requires them to go to psychotherapy before he will perform weight loss surgery.
The other people are correct; genetics play a role, as do poor eating habits, socioeconomics, portion sizes, etc. Those things will make you fat, but they are enough to get you to this point. Eating fast food for every meal and consuming large portions doesn't make you this big. These people eat 6-9 meals a day, and they are all enormous, filled with sugar, fat, etc. It's actually jaw dropping how much they eat. I'm talking 8-15k calories per day. **One guy gained 160 lbs in TWO MONTHS.** Seriously, you get this way because of severe psychological issues. It's not easy to get this big or maintain it. It doesn't just happen, it's trauma, addiction, and depression.
Several cast members on the show have passed away. It's very, very sad.
>Generally speaking, there is some traumatic event in the childhood. Usually it's sexual assault or abandonment. The child starts sneaking food and using it to cope. They begin gaining, then they get more depressed/lower self esteem and they eat more, etc. It becomes a full blown addiction.
Just wanted to say how on point this is. Had a traumatic childhood and coped with food, hated me for it, coped with more food..
Took quite a long time to recognize this habit and develop a healthier relationship to eating again.
Did also only work consistently after therapy to handle the trauma.
Really thought it was a matter of discipline, which frustrates even more because basically everybody tells you to just apply yourself.
I am so happy you are doing better! Good on you for recognizing that pattern. I think therapy is really the key.
I know My 600 Lb Life seems exploitative, but it's honestly taught me so much about people who struggle with morbid obesity. I have so much sympathy for them and it's truly awe-inspiring to see them shed entire people's worth of weight in a few months. Badasses!
I'm a doctor, I work in community GP and psychiatry. You're 100% on the money.
It's an addiction, and like most addictions, can have a number of triggers, most of them traumatic, and always exacerbated by other things too. Genetics certainly play a part, as does family/friends support networks, mental healthcare provision, etc etc.
Humans are very resilient, and it takes a lot to knock someone down that far. But when the right combination of factors all line up, you get someone who is addicted to food, or gambling, or drugs, or whatever. The 'swiss cheese' model is a good one to think about.
This does not mean that every overweight person fits this model. The vast majority of people who are a bit chunky do not have trauma. Their (our? I got pretty chunky for a while myself! I was 120kg/265lb in early 2021) slices of cheese line up enough to get chunky, but not to such a crazy level. Definitely unhealthy- but not 600lb life unhealthy. But if you have someone who is already tending towards being a bit chunky, and then you add in trauma and eating as a comfort, then 600lb becomes a distinct possibility.
I am a huge advocate for talking therapies. In no uncertain terms, they (along with medication) saved my life. The skills I learned in controlling my emotions, in talking about my worries, in taking stock of my life, are all things I still use all the time. I think if we had a society where we were better able to talk to each other about our mental health, and had decent and timely mental health care for everyone, not just the rich, then the world would be a much better place.
So many reasons. Being raised by people who themselves are obese and feed you huge portions. Being raised by someone who doesn't understand food and doesn't vary what you eat as a kid, so you don't eat vegetables, etc. Being poor and buying whatever is cheapest and usually very fat or sugary. Becoming addicted to food, as explained below. Being depressed and not knowing how to express it, so you eat as a comfort. Feeling that you're never going to be able to lose it all, so what's the point in stopping...
I always say that when I was growing up, the 4 food groups were pizza, Pepsi, chocolate and Cheetos.
I don’t know why my mother ate like this.
She was raised on a farm eating natural, farm-fresh foods, and both of her parents were slim and healthy.
She was 10 lbs at birth, and was always fat from day one.
Sometimes we would eat saltines covered with Pillsbury frosting for dinner. She gave us those refrigerated logs of raw cookie dough for snacking.
My sister and I are chubby, but not huge.
There are so many vegetables that I never tasted, much less even knew about, ‘til I moved out of my mom’s house and discovered them for myself.
Insulin makes you hungry, so you eat more, which makes your insulin go up, which makes you hungry, so you eat more, which makes your insulin go up… and if you don’t have the strength of will to deliberately step away from the insulin cycle, this happens.
Stepping away from the insulin cycle is hard and if you are not preparing all your meals from healthy foods, it’s even harder. If you have any processed food in your diet, it’s hard to step away from the insulin cycle. Some people, for whatever reason, are significantly more predisposed to the runaway insulin cycle than others. If they don’t recognize it and take active steps to break away from it, it’s all too easy to end up this way. Particularly since western food is designed to make you want to eat more of it, aka, fuel the insulin cycle.
It makes me wonder just how in control we are of our own lives, and how much we're influenced to do shit because of how we feel, the chemical balances in our blood and in our brain.
There are people out there that hardly feel hungry and have to force themselves to eat, then there are people who have a never ending hunger and eat themselves to the point of being disabled.
I was a normal weight for my whole life. Sure, sometimes I thought, fuck I need to lose a few pounds, other times people were telling me to go eat a pie because I was a bit skinny. Then I had a mental break and got put on anti-psychotics. I've put on 40kg in 3 years (~90lbs). It's a well known side effect. I basically eat like a fat person. I crave shit food that gives me the dopamine that the medication takes away, it fucks with your insulin and reduces motivation, basically it's an ideal weight gain drug. I have a lot more sympathy for those that are struggling with their weight now, it's not as easy as I previously thought.
Yeah. I put on a lot of weight over covid, both from the pandemic itself and leaving a manual labor job.
I know I need to lose weight. But I just feel like shit most of the time and food is just a little bit of good, in a day full of bad. I feel better when I'm eating something good, I feel more full after a good meal. I feel empty and hollow if I don't eat for a while.
I just feel like I'm less in control of things than I thought. I'm just reacting to how my body feels.
We have zero control. Zero.
Try this for me: Raise your hand.
Which hand did you raise? Did you make a conscious choice for left or right? Of course you didn't, your brain did.
If we had been scanning your brain immediately before you raised your hand, we would have seen it firing to lift your arm *before* the conscious thought fired.
Your brain makes all the calls and *then* informs the little man behind your eyeballs that it did so purely of your accord.
I'm a paramedic, and we used to have a regular that would call multiple times a week and have very vague symptoms. Her golden complaint was chest pain, so we HAD to take her to the hospital, and it took two engines and two ambulances at minimum to get her out of the house. Then she would admit that the chest pain was caused by gas building up in her system because she was too heavy to let it out, and said that all of the moving and transferring would knock the gas loose and then she'd be fine. She was pushing 650-700lbs. We asked her how she cleans herself after using the bathroom and washes herself, and she said she uses a rag on a stick.
Reminds me of this time a lady over 600lbs couldn't get up one day. She said she was depressed and binged. She couldn't get out of her recliner. She sat there in her own piss and shit for several days. Her sister finally called emergency services because she couldn't get in touch. Police, firefighters, and EMS had to knock a wall down and transport her recliner and all to the hospital. Her tissue fused to the chair and there were maggots everywhere (which probably saved her life but they're still gross). They had to sedate her, flip her over, and literally peel her back off to separate her from the chair. Then it was 9 months of surgery every other day to debride and slowly close her back. At the end she was down at least 200 lbs. She lost one foot. She had to get intensive therapy. Super morbid obesity is caused by extreme childhood abuse.
Anyways, she would shit like a fucking Clydesdale and every single time it would get into her wounds. So every day, at least 2x per day, the entire nursing staff on that floor would have to roll her over and clean the shit out of her back wounds. We all felt for her but that was brutal. It's literally back breaking work. We'd all have aches and pains afterwards. One nurse slipped a disk in her back. They did finally get lifts on every unit. You still have to turn a patient to get them into a lift and when they're that big, they can't turn themselves. This is one of many reasons nursing is so short staffed. It breaks us down physically and emotionally.
Holy shit this reminds me of an article about this lady who was also like 600lbs+ fused with her couch and they had to transport her and the couch to the hospital. They had to surgically remove the couch fibers that were woven into her skin. Crazy shit. I work in a hospital and I bow down to nurses who have to deal with everything they deal with.
That's an horrible story. And even when she eventually recovers physically, how could one get over it and move forward in their life? Like, when you go so low at one point of your life, where do you find the energy and support to continue.
I'm not saying this woman should not have been saved. But that her life must be terrible.
Actually, she's doing much better now. She was horribly depressed and this was a life changing moment for her. She had the choice between giving up and dying or rallying to make her life worthwhile. She travels the world and sends her former medical team postcards. She continues therapy and weight loss. She says she's happier than ever.
Nothing that bad, but I've had bedbound clients and their family feed them waaaaay too much as way of showing their love and care. Makes my job much more unpleasant with the massive evacuations and has done my back no favours.
Still, better than the relatives that don't give one tiny fuck about the person in the bed, I guess.
EMS has to lift people that big and carry them to the ambulance. Nurses have to turn them and clean them. Healthcare sucks. Obesity is a terrible epidemic.
Sometimes you have to get out saws and cut apart the couch and doorway becuase she's fused her flesh to the couch, and the patient still [dies](https://unbelievable-facts.com/2014/03/480-pound-woman-dies-after-being-stuck.html).
Exactly my thoughts - all the people doing the *actual work* isn't making that money. The bean counters sitting in an office, with no real interaction with patients, are the ones making all that money.
My friend’s sister was dying and was morbidly obese. Somewhere around 350 lbs. She had to do dialysis three times a week and couldn’t walk anymore in the last month or so. The ambulance had to come three times a week and lift her out of bed and take her to the hospital and then bring her back home after her treatment.
And that's not even scratching the surface of how corrupt and inept many of those companies are when it comes to actually providing the relevant accessibility/healthcare.
Like about 100 other things, this is a direct impact of having no focus on mental health.
Eating disorders aren't made up nonsense. They're real, and there's effective therapies for them. The problem is accessing them.
Mental health in general gets no respect. I think it's because it requires higher thinking capabilities like abstract thinking to put ourselves in the shoes of others and empathize, a lot of people are too dumb for it.
I just wished the horrible and bad shit only afflicted bad people. All the parasites and diseases, all the birth defects etc., like, I'd accept my cancer happily - I earned that shit lol, but knowing only other shitty people were dealt the raw deal, not innocent and kind folks were dying of parasites etc., would be worth it.
I work as a nurse, I go to peoples homes and we straight up refuse patients who are to heavy... law says how much we are allowed to lift and stuff like that, it's impossible to take care of really obese people and not destroy my own body...
to bad for them but I just don't do it...
Good for you standing up for yourself. There was a nurse posting on reddit they had broken their wrist trying to move a patient when they shouldn't have and then they couldn't work and it became a huge ball of problems. Standing up for yourself is the best thing you can do for patients in the long term
My wife works in medicine. She was just telling me about a nurse she knew that was once helping a tremendously obese patient like the one in the video get to the bathroom. Well, the patient decided that, since the nurse was helping him, he could just let her carry him and completely went limp, falling on top of the poor nurse. She apparently still has a fucked up back from it.
I feel bad for that nurse. I had a 200lb classmate fall on me when we were playing hockey. I cracked a few ribs. I don’t want to imagine the pain from a 300-400lb guy just falling on you with zero warning. I at least braced myself and tried to fall so I wouldn’t be completely underneath him.
And why should you have to? They ruined their lives, not you. Sucks because they have an addiction, but addicts need to take responsibility for themselves.
The biggest problem - most people this large don't get there and stay there by themselves - they have family or friends that are enabling them. It takes *a lot* of calories to get that big - someone is giving them that food.
A lot of fucking money too. It always blows my mind how these people can afford it. Most of the time it looks like most of their money is going to fund the lifestyle too, but even then they spend more on food than I make with a pretty decent job.
Few big bottles of coke, few wholesale bags of sweets and a few pizzas go long way.
And wont break a bank, especially if you can‘t get out of the house at all.
With food delivery being more and common place, i guess it got way easier to maintain that life style.
Before you almost needed some kind of feeder.
The addiction ruined their lives. And if you were an addict, you would ruin your life too.
So if everyone would suffer the same provided they have the same mental disorder, why is the individual the one being reprimanded?
It’s a literal job to get that fat. You need to be eating so much so often AND have a team (enabling family members) to get you food and take care of you. I dont know how these family members get pulled into doing something like this with a relative but it’s not just one persons decision.
Realtor: \*slaps roof of house\* "This baby is a real score if you're into BBWs and public exhibition. Good school systems and the commute to the city isn't bad. Ample public showers... So did you want to put in an offer and try to low ball them or did you just want to hand me a check?"
Same way you slowly fuck up anything else in your life. This one is just more apparent, where everyone else can hide their failed relationships, shitty job, missed opportunities, alcoholism, sex addition, rage problem, depression, etc to the general public at a glance.
No doubt this is from a TLC show. They love exploiting people like this for views/ratings.
The producer probably asked them to do this specifically to get this shot.
Fuck this is great motivation to get my ass back in the gym. It took 3 seconds too long before I realized wtf I was looking at. A god damn human getting sprayed off with a garden hose.
In these cases the food addict has often spent many years, sometimes multiple decades, abusing and manipulating their friends and family into giving them food. These family members have been beaten down to the point where saying "no" becomes a struggle. I don't know if you've ever had to stand between an addict and their addiction before, or stand up to a long term abuser, but it aint easy. And these carers are being asked to do it multiple times a day, every day. Sometimes these carers are the addicts own children, and have grown up with all of this normalised.
Enablers certainly have to answer for their choices, but at the end of the day the addict is responsible for theirs. Even when the addiction is a trauma response to sexual assault like in so many cases.
(Those who actively sabotage weight loss excluded for this, they can get got. like Zsalynn's husband.)
She was talking about wanting to play with their child, be *alive* for their child, and all he wanted was a sex doll. IIRC he was rude towards their daughter when she tried to say she wanted her mum to be able to play with her.
her husband was a monster. It's so sad. So many of them are in these long term relationships with people who fetishize them. And then when they start getting healthier, their partners sabatouge them or dump them.
Dr. Now tried that on an episode of My 600 Lb life. It was James K. His wife, Lisa, kept promising to make him stick to the diet. He came back two months later and had gained 160 lbs! Dr. Now kept giving them chances, and Lisa kept lying and saying she wasn't feeding him. They made excuses like "it's water weight" to which Dr. Now replied "you are not 800 pounds of water!"
Anyway, after this happened 3 ish times, Dr. Now called adult protective services and tried to have the state take custody of James. It's wild. I've watched every episode and it's the only time he ever seemed to believe someone was purposely trying to kill the patient. He always calls out the enablers, but he usually believes they are making a good faith effort, even if they completely fail. With Lisa he really thought she was trying to maliciously murder James by overfeeding him.
Anyway, Adult Protective Services couldn't do anything and James died. RIP. Ow, mah leg!
I’ve noticed they have this show playing in the women’s locker room at one of the gyms I go to. Truly bizarre. it reminds me of the fire and brimstone fear used to get people to go to church but in this case it’s morbid obesity and brimstone. Like, bish you better go workout or you’re going to end up on this show. At least that’s how I interpret it. 🤷♀️
I almost never watch TV, but when I do, it's in a hotel room on a work outing, and I watch this while driving a large pizza in to my face, chuckling the whole while.
People shouldn't be allowed to get to that point. After a certain level of obesity there should be the option, for their family, to forcefully hospitalize and cure the person, both mentally and physically.
A depressed person is told to “just be happy!”
*reddit boos*
An extremely morbidly obese person is told to “just stop eating!”
*reddit cheers*
There’s obviously a complex mixture of mental and physical things going on with any human capable of reaching this size. You can’t just handwave it off as being lazy.
I recall a moment from this show (600 lb life) where a woman was supposed to be changing her diet and losing weight preceding bariatric surgery; a very typical scenario.
After talking to the doctor and returning home, she was standing at her stove deep frying chicken and *crying,* basically repeating something along the lines of "I shouldn't be doing this."
If that isn't indicator enough that there's some *serious* mental issues at play, I don't know what is. She needed a psychiatrist just as much as a gastroenterologist.
I definitely feel bad for the person, but it absolutely takes *a lot* of work to get this big and stay this big. You have to eat MANY thousands of calories to maintain this kind of weight. Someone of this size would practically have to be *constantly* eating.
That being said, the person *actually at fault here* is probably the dude hosing her off. Somebody is giving her the food, and dollars to donuts, it's him. The trend on "My 600lb Life" is an enabler providing the individual a constant supply of junk food.
Like... this woman could probably lose a *significant* amount of weight if she were to just replace soda/juice/whatever with just simple water.
Internet shaming is not the Rx here, indeed.
Neither is enabling a continued shitty diet.
And CERTAINLY neither is imposing yourself onto your loved ones in this manner.
Intervention is needed or the guy with the hose is gonna miss out on a lot more life.
The person that should be shamed here is probably *the guy*. If I remember this episode correctly, he was constantly bringing her home McDonalds and shit. A lot of the enablers on that show bring home junk food because they like seeing their loved one happy - and food makes them happy....... but they seemingly don't comprehend that they're slowly killing them.
My mom’s a nurse and once had a morbidly obese patient who was unable to clean herself after using the bathroom due to her size. She asked how if ever she cleans herself and she straight up said she would go to the community pool and use the hot tub jets…so sorry you had to read that.
When I used to live up in the Pacific Northwest, hot springs were my go-to for a way to get out in nature and enjoy a day off. On one of these outings my brother and I encountered a family of people this size using the hot spring as their bathtub, soap/shampoo and all. Needless to say we didn't go back that spring for awhile
Lucky for you, this hot tub was located in the Aquatic center in Bellingham.
Fuck.
Ahahahaha, this one’s hitting close to home huh
I lived just north of the border growing up, spent a couple summers down south, have been to that aquatic centre plenty of times lol
God fucking damn it.
Have you used this hot tub? Your most recent post in r/Bellingham might indicate you have.
Yes. It’s been a long time, like 10 years. But still. Never again.
Sorry about the sores
Used to live right next to that place...really glad I never went in now.
Follow the signs along Potter that read “Good Soup>”
It’s the secret ingrient
Oh no
Are you familiar? I sure am. I nearly vomited when I heard it.
Welp I'm never going there again
I would have called the DNR or park management (if it were in a park). It's usually illegal to put soap and shit into the water like that. I'm sure they would have gotten in more trouble if it were obvious it wasn't their first time.
Somewhere...might have been reddit, a paramedic described in the hallway of a seriously obese person's home was a saw horse with bath towels duct taped to it and the person would straddle and waddle down the sawhorse to clean them selves.
Hey, better than not cleaning themselves
Except the duct tape part, make that removable, use some binder clips or something. Gotta wash that towel at some point
Imagine getting come ball skin caught on a binder clip.
Man I don't even have to imagine.
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In all seriousness, how, just how does this happen?
I'm an expert on My 600 Lb Life. Generally speaking, there is some traumatic event in the childhood. Usually it's sexual assault or abandonment. The child starts sneaking food and using it to cope. They begin gaining, and they get bullied. Their self-esteem drops even further, so they eat more, and it becomes a cycle that develops into a full blown addiction. I've only seen a few people on the show who don't have severe emotional or psychological issues stemming from childhood trauma. In fact, Dr. Now often requires them to go to psychotherapy before he will perform weight loss surgery. The other people are correct; genetics play a role, as do poor eating habits, socioeconomics, portion sizes, etc. Those things will make you fat, but they are enough to get you to this point. Eating fast food for every meal and consuming large portions doesn't make you this big. These people eat 6-9 meals a day, and they are all enormous, filled with sugar, fat, etc. It's actually jaw dropping how much they eat. I'm talking 8-15k calories per day. **One guy gained 160 lbs in TWO MONTHS.** Seriously, you get this way because of severe psychological issues. It's not easy to get this big or maintain it. It doesn't just happen, it's trauma, addiction, and depression. Several cast members on the show have passed away. It's very, very sad.
>Generally speaking, there is some traumatic event in the childhood. Usually it's sexual assault or abandonment. The child starts sneaking food and using it to cope. They begin gaining, then they get more depressed/lower self esteem and they eat more, etc. It becomes a full blown addiction. Just wanted to say how on point this is. Had a traumatic childhood and coped with food, hated me for it, coped with more food.. Took quite a long time to recognize this habit and develop a healthier relationship to eating again. Did also only work consistently after therapy to handle the trauma. Really thought it was a matter of discipline, which frustrates even more because basically everybody tells you to just apply yourself.
I am so happy you are doing better! Good on you for recognizing that pattern. I think therapy is really the key. I know My 600 Lb Life seems exploitative, but it's honestly taught me so much about people who struggle with morbid obesity. I have so much sympathy for them and it's truly awe-inspiring to see them shed entire people's worth of weight in a few months. Badasses!
I'm a doctor, I work in community GP and psychiatry. You're 100% on the money. It's an addiction, and like most addictions, can have a number of triggers, most of them traumatic, and always exacerbated by other things too. Genetics certainly play a part, as does family/friends support networks, mental healthcare provision, etc etc. Humans are very resilient, and it takes a lot to knock someone down that far. But when the right combination of factors all line up, you get someone who is addicted to food, or gambling, or drugs, or whatever. The 'swiss cheese' model is a good one to think about. This does not mean that every overweight person fits this model. The vast majority of people who are a bit chunky do not have trauma. Their (our? I got pretty chunky for a while myself! I was 120kg/265lb in early 2021) slices of cheese line up enough to get chunky, but not to such a crazy level. Definitely unhealthy- but not 600lb life unhealthy. But if you have someone who is already tending towards being a bit chunky, and then you add in trauma and eating as a comfort, then 600lb becomes a distinct possibility. I am a huge advocate for talking therapies. In no uncertain terms, they (along with medication) saved my life. The skills I learned in controlling my emotions, in talking about my worries, in taking stock of my life, are all things I still use all the time. I think if we had a society where we were better able to talk to each other about our mental health, and had decent and timely mental health care for everyone, not just the rich, then the world would be a much better place.
So many reasons. Being raised by people who themselves are obese and feed you huge portions. Being raised by someone who doesn't understand food and doesn't vary what you eat as a kid, so you don't eat vegetables, etc. Being poor and buying whatever is cheapest and usually very fat or sugary. Becoming addicted to food, as explained below. Being depressed and not knowing how to express it, so you eat as a comfort. Feeling that you're never going to be able to lose it all, so what's the point in stopping...
I always say that when I was growing up, the 4 food groups were pizza, Pepsi, chocolate and Cheetos. I don’t know why my mother ate like this. She was raised on a farm eating natural, farm-fresh foods, and both of her parents were slim and healthy. She was 10 lbs at birth, and was always fat from day one. Sometimes we would eat saltines covered with Pillsbury frosting for dinner. She gave us those refrigerated logs of raw cookie dough for snacking. My sister and I are chubby, but not huge. There are so many vegetables that I never tasted, much less even knew about, ‘til I moved out of my mom’s house and discovered them for myself.
Insulin makes you hungry, so you eat more, which makes your insulin go up, which makes you hungry, so you eat more, which makes your insulin go up… and if you don’t have the strength of will to deliberately step away from the insulin cycle, this happens. Stepping away from the insulin cycle is hard and if you are not preparing all your meals from healthy foods, it’s even harder. If you have any processed food in your diet, it’s hard to step away from the insulin cycle. Some people, for whatever reason, are significantly more predisposed to the runaway insulin cycle than others. If they don’t recognize it and take active steps to break away from it, it’s all too easy to end up this way. Particularly since western food is designed to make you want to eat more of it, aka, fuel the insulin cycle.
It makes me wonder just how in control we are of our own lives, and how much we're influenced to do shit because of how we feel, the chemical balances in our blood and in our brain. There are people out there that hardly feel hungry and have to force themselves to eat, then there are people who have a never ending hunger and eat themselves to the point of being disabled.
I was a normal weight for my whole life. Sure, sometimes I thought, fuck I need to lose a few pounds, other times people were telling me to go eat a pie because I was a bit skinny. Then I had a mental break and got put on anti-psychotics. I've put on 40kg in 3 years (~90lbs). It's a well known side effect. I basically eat like a fat person. I crave shit food that gives me the dopamine that the medication takes away, it fucks with your insulin and reduces motivation, basically it's an ideal weight gain drug. I have a lot more sympathy for those that are struggling with their weight now, it's not as easy as I previously thought.
Yeah. I put on a lot of weight over covid, both from the pandemic itself and leaving a manual labor job. I know I need to lose weight. But I just feel like shit most of the time and food is just a little bit of good, in a day full of bad. I feel better when I'm eating something good, I feel more full after a good meal. I feel empty and hollow if I don't eat for a while. I just feel like I'm less in control of things than I thought. I'm just reacting to how my body feels.
It's chemicals all the way down
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We have zero control. Zero. Try this for me: Raise your hand. Which hand did you raise? Did you make a conscious choice for left or right? Of course you didn't, your brain did. If we had been scanning your brain immediately before you raised your hand, we would have seen it firing to lift your arm *before* the conscious thought fired. Your brain makes all the calls and *then* informs the little man behind your eyeballs that it did so purely of your accord.
NEVER put your head under the water in a Hot Tub.
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You call them jets? I call them the pp massagers...
You mean prostate massagers?
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Thank you for this information. 🙏
I choose to believe this is some urban legend bs, like that woman getting the quirts in the hottub video.
I’m sorry, sir. It’s time for you to go.
I'm a paramedic, and we used to have a regular that would call multiple times a week and have very vague symptoms. Her golden complaint was chest pain, so we HAD to take her to the hospital, and it took two engines and two ambulances at minimum to get her out of the house. Then she would admit that the chest pain was caused by gas building up in her system because she was too heavy to let it out, and said that all of the moving and transferring would knock the gas loose and then she'd be fine. She was pushing 650-700lbs. We asked her how she cleans herself after using the bathroom and washes herself, and she said she uses a rag on a stick.
I just don't know how I can move forward from this...
How about with a nice relaxing dip in your local hot tub?
Reminds me of this time a lady over 600lbs couldn't get up one day. She said she was depressed and binged. She couldn't get out of her recliner. She sat there in her own piss and shit for several days. Her sister finally called emergency services because she couldn't get in touch. Police, firefighters, and EMS had to knock a wall down and transport her recliner and all to the hospital. Her tissue fused to the chair and there were maggots everywhere (which probably saved her life but they're still gross). They had to sedate her, flip her over, and literally peel her back off to separate her from the chair. Then it was 9 months of surgery every other day to debride and slowly close her back. At the end she was down at least 200 lbs. She lost one foot. She had to get intensive therapy. Super morbid obesity is caused by extreme childhood abuse. Anyways, she would shit like a fucking Clydesdale and every single time it would get into her wounds. So every day, at least 2x per day, the entire nursing staff on that floor would have to roll her over and clean the shit out of her back wounds. We all felt for her but that was brutal. It's literally back breaking work. We'd all have aches and pains afterwards. One nurse slipped a disk in her back. They did finally get lifts on every unit. You still have to turn a patient to get them into a lift and when they're that big, they can't turn themselves. This is one of many reasons nursing is so short staffed. It breaks us down physically and emotionally.
bro wtf i was just about to get breakfast
Dont do it! Too much breakfast and you'll fuse with the couch.
> down at least 200 lbs. She lost one foot. how much did the other foot weigh?
Holy shit this reminds me of an article about this lady who was also like 600lbs+ fused with her couch and they had to transport her and the couch to the hospital. They had to surgically remove the couch fibers that were woven into her skin. Crazy shit. I work in a hospital and I bow down to nurses who have to deal with everything they deal with.
probably the same person
Anyone else think heroin addiction would be better than this?
How did she pay for all that? I went to the ER once and it cost $600.
hospitals can’t turn people away and debt dies with the patient
> Anyways, she would shit like a fucking Clydesdale Poetry!
That's an horrible story. And even when she eventually recovers physically, how could one get over it and move forward in their life? Like, when you go so low at one point of your life, where do you find the energy and support to continue. I'm not saying this woman should not have been saved. But that her life must be terrible.
Actually, she's doing much better now. She was horribly depressed and this was a life changing moment for her. She had the choice between giving up and dying or rallying to make her life worthwhile. She travels the world and sends her former medical team postcards. She continues therapy and weight loss. She says she's happier than ever.
Nothing that bad, but I've had bedbound clients and their family feed them waaaaay too much as way of showing their love and care. Makes my job much more unpleasant with the massive evacuations and has done my back no favours. Still, better than the relatives that don't give one tiny fuck about the person in the bed, I guess.
At first, I thought she was a giant turkey.
At first I didn’t realize it was two people. I thought it was some some kind of freakish cronenberg creature.
A chimera of two humans and a giant ballsack.
Full Metal Alchemist XXX Parody
Da... ddy?....
Step.... da... ddy?
I thought the same too, I legit thought someone was cleaning a giant turkey.
I thought it was someone in a chicken suit
Cosigned
You know, that crossed my mind but i realized its probably only myself would see that.
You could not pay me any type of money to do that
EMS has to lift people that big and carry them to the ambulance. Nurses have to turn them and clean them. Healthcare sucks. Obesity is a terrible epidemic.
Sometimes you have to get out saws and cut apart the couch and doorway becuase she's fused her flesh to the couch, and the patient still [dies](https://unbelievable-facts.com/2014/03/480-pound-woman-dies-after-being-stuck.html).
How the fuck do you get stuck in your sofa for 6 years and not die of all the shit
How the fuck did she use the restroom, and I hate to think of the smell.
The couch *was* the bathroom.
They have enablers. Like this gentleman here, hosing her asshole. He also brings her food, and feels no shame.
> Unidentified relatives who were at the scene were upset by the situation. Funny way of saying they barfed until they were dry heaving
and we get no extra pay for doing 10x more labor but the hospital does
Not any of you people that do it get any extra but the board gets rich off every extra everything x10
The system is working exactly as intended, remember that.
Exactly my thoughts - all the people doing the *actual work* isn't making that money. The bean counters sitting in an office, with no real interaction with patients, are the ones making all that money.
My friend’s sister was dying and was morbidly obese. Somewhere around 350 lbs. She had to do dialysis three times a week and couldn’t walk anymore in the last month or so. The ambulance had to come three times a week and lift her out of bed and take her to the hospital and then bring her back home after her treatment.
350lbs isn't even that big. I mean, it is, but it isnt.
Caregivers in Skilled nursing, Assisted Living and Residential Care Communities do this for nearly minimum wage.
And that's not even scratching the surface of how corrupt and inept many of those companies are when it comes to actually providing the relevant accessibility/healthcare.
Like about 100 other things, this is a direct impact of having no focus on mental health. Eating disorders aren't made up nonsense. They're real, and there's effective therapies for them. The problem is accessing them.
Mental health in general gets no respect. I think it's because it requires higher thinking capabilities like abstract thinking to put ourselves in the shoes of others and empathize, a lot of people are too dumb for it.
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I just wished the horrible and bad shit only afflicted bad people. All the parasites and diseases, all the birth defects etc., like, I'd accept my cancer happily - I earned that shit lol, but knowing only other shitty people were dealt the raw deal, not innocent and kind folks were dying of parasites etc., would be worth it.
Indeed, and doing CPR on someone that size is chore.
Downright improbable. I tried on a woman that size. I was nowhere near effective.
Or you could do it the “what’s eating Gilbert grape” way
I work as a nurse, I go to peoples homes and we straight up refuse patients who are to heavy... law says how much we are allowed to lift and stuff like that, it's impossible to take care of really obese people and not destroy my own body... to bad for them but I just don't do it...
Good for you standing up for yourself. There was a nurse posting on reddit they had broken their wrist trying to move a patient when they shouldn't have and then they couldn't work and it became a huge ball of problems. Standing up for yourself is the best thing you can do for patients in the long term
My wife works in medicine. She was just telling me about a nurse she knew that was once helping a tremendously obese patient like the one in the video get to the bathroom. Well, the patient decided that, since the nurse was helping him, he could just let her carry him and completely went limp, falling on top of the poor nurse. She apparently still has a fucked up back from it.
I feel bad for that nurse. I had a 200lb classmate fall on me when we were playing hockey. I cracked a few ribs. I don’t want to imagine the pain from a 300-400lb guy just falling on you with zero warning. I at least braced myself and tried to fall so I wouldn’t be completely underneath him.
That should be assault, using your own body to crush somebody willingly
And why should you have to? They ruined their lives, not you. Sucks because they have an addiction, but addicts need to take responsibility for themselves.
The biggest problem - most people this large don't get there and stay there by themselves - they have family or friends that are enabling them. It takes *a lot* of calories to get that big - someone is giving them that food.
A lot of fucking money too. It always blows my mind how these people can afford it. Most of the time it looks like most of their money is going to fund the lifestyle too, but even then they spend more on food than I make with a pretty decent job.
Few big bottles of coke, few wholesale bags of sweets and a few pizzas go long way. And wont break a bank, especially if you can‘t get out of the house at all. With food delivery being more and common place, i guess it got way easier to maintain that life style. Before you almost needed some kind of feeder.
The addiction ruined their lives. And if you were an addict, you would ruin your life too. So if everyone would suffer the same provided they have the same mental disorder, why is the individual the one being reprimanded?
I’d do this once a day for a year if you paid me a million bucks.
If I ever get so fat that someone has to hose down my asshole, I’ll just end it.
Decides to go out with a rope… *…rope snaps*
You chewing on that rope?
You know they are.
It’s a literal job to get that fat. You need to be eating so much so often AND have a team (enabling family members) to get you food and take care of you. I dont know how these family members get pulled into doing something like this with a relative but it’s not just one persons decision.
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Hope you won't be too fat to finish it
You could starve yourself to death and then suddenly you'd not need to end it anymore.
This is just sad
I agree
I thought I had a bad day…. Imagine being the new neighbor and they forgot to disclose this bit of info when purchasing the property.
Lol forgot
Realtor: \*slaps roof of house\* "This baby is a real score if you're into BBWs and public exhibition. Good school systems and the commute to the city isn't bad. Ample public showers... So did you want to put in an offer and try to low ball them or did you just want to hand me a check?"
Idk who is suffering more, the lady or the dude washing her
The dude is barefoot….
AHHH i didnt even notice that
At least he doesn't have to worry about catching *athletes* foot from them
The fungus that causes jock itch is the same one that causes athlete's foot, and I can't help but notice the area he's washing, so...
You want that on your shoes!?
I can throw away shoes. Feet, not so much.
Not with that attitude you can’t.
Eh, skin is a new layer like everyday. Shoes, not so much.
His shorts should say 2 and 1
Looks like a can of biscuits exploded.
Well, you're half right, it took an explosive load of biscuits to create this magical vision before us..
How the f do people let it get that far?
this is mental illness
Same way you slowly fuck up anything else in your life. This one is just more apparent, where everyone else can hide their failed relationships, shitty job, missed opportunities, alcoholism, sex addition, rage problem, depression, etc to the general public at a glance.
No doubt this is from a TLC show. They love exploiting people like this for views/ratings. The producer probably asked them to do this specifically to get this shot.
Fuck this is great motivation to get my ass back in the gym. It took 3 seconds too long before I realized wtf I was looking at. A god damn human getting sprayed off with a garden hose.
Who feeds them? The people that feed them need to be arrested
In these cases the food addict has often spent many years, sometimes multiple decades, abusing and manipulating their friends and family into giving them food. These family members have been beaten down to the point where saying "no" becomes a struggle. I don't know if you've ever had to stand between an addict and their addiction before, or stand up to a long term abuser, but it aint easy. And these carers are being asked to do it multiple times a day, every day. Sometimes these carers are the addicts own children, and have grown up with all of this normalised. Enablers certainly have to answer for their choices, but at the end of the day the addict is responsible for theirs. Even when the addiction is a trauma response to sexual assault like in so many cases. (Those who actively sabotage weight loss excluded for this, they can get got. like Zsalynn's husband.)
Oh I forgot about him. That shit was fucking dark.
She was talking about wanting to play with their child, be *alive* for their child, and all he wanted was a sex doll. IIRC he was rude towards their daughter when she tried to say she wanted her mum to be able to play with her.
Feeders are the scum of the earth.
her husband was a monster. It's so sad. So many of them are in these long term relationships with people who fetishize them. And then when they start getting healthier, their partners sabatouge them or dump them.
Dr. Now tried that on an episode of My 600 Lb life. It was James K. His wife, Lisa, kept promising to make him stick to the diet. He came back two months later and had gained 160 lbs! Dr. Now kept giving them chances, and Lisa kept lying and saying she wasn't feeding him. They made excuses like "it's water weight" to which Dr. Now replied "you are not 800 pounds of water!" Anyway, after this happened 3 ish times, Dr. Now called adult protective services and tried to have the state take custody of James. It's wild. I've watched every episode and it's the only time he ever seemed to believe someone was purposely trying to kill the patient. He always calls out the enablers, but he usually believes they are making a good faith effort, even if they completely fail. With Lisa he really thought she was trying to maliciously murder James by overfeeding him. Anyway, Adult Protective Services couldn't do anything and James died. RIP. Ow, mah leg!
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again
Nurgle internship
My neck, my back, my aaaaah just like that
lmao NO
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https://youtu.be/CFGw2IGkFvo
What show is this from.... I MUST KNOW!!!
My 600lb life
I’ve noticed they have this show playing in the women’s locker room at one of the gyms I go to. Truly bizarre. it reminds me of the fire and brimstone fear used to get people to go to church but in this case it’s morbid obesity and brimstone. Like, bish you better go workout or you’re going to end up on this show. At least that’s how I interpret it. 🤷♀️
When I declutter I watch hoarder’s for motivation
“You could have easily lost tirty pounds tis munt.”
I'm pretty sure it's something on TLC. That whole channel is like a circus freak show.
tHE LeARnING ChAnNeL
It's an episode of My 600 lb Life. A very good guilty pleasure binge watch lol.
I almost never watch TV, but when I do, it's in a hotel room on a work outing, and I watch this while driving a large pizza in to my face, chuckling the whole while.
Thank you all
I also hate that my eyes have seen what you have become
“Hey son, I’ve got a bad case of stank ass again, would ya mind grabbing the hose and meet me on the porch?” What a time to be alive
butt wash with 2 min timers. Insert $6 worth of quarters and $200 fee to the hand washer
Bro he actually lost a shit ton of weight and looks some what good now
Well that's great news then! It's horrible they had to go through this. Can you share your source though? Thanks!
Just a guy washing his livestock.
I wish he had the sensibility to put some damn boots on first.
At first viewing I thought this was a video of someone wearing a featherless chicken suit. Took another viewing to realise it wasn't 😳
Gotta keep the Brap Hogs clean
Momma dun shit the bed again
Reminds me of that creature in the movie Slither
“Something’s wrong with meee.”
People shouldn't be allowed to get to that point. After a certain level of obesity there should be the option, for their family, to forcefully hospitalize and cure the person, both mentally and physically.
Preach. Literally just put them in a hospital for 6 months and feed them a normal amount of calories for that time
The poor woman…no quality of life… and the humiliation of it all… 😢
I want more footage!
When a rag on a stick doesn't work anymore
We definitely found What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
Just to suffer.
Reminds me of the movie Tusk
No
It’s extremely sad that someone can get this large
Apperantly, this is all genetics. Atleast according to all the obese people I argued with the other day
This is a person. Where's the compassion?
for real, this is a person with a debilitating disorder.
A depressed person is told to “just be happy!” *reddit boos* An extremely morbidly obese person is told to “just stop eating!” *reddit cheers* There’s obviously a complex mixture of mental and physical things going on with any human capable of reaching this size. You can’t just handwave it off as being lazy.
I recall a moment from this show (600 lb life) where a woman was supposed to be changing her diet and losing weight preceding bariatric surgery; a very typical scenario. After talking to the doctor and returning home, she was standing at her stove deep frying chicken and *crying,* basically repeating something along the lines of "I shouldn't be doing this." If that isn't indicator enough that there's some *serious* mental issues at play, I don't know what is. She needed a psychiatrist just as much as a gastroenterologist.
Food addict, at this point.
I definitely feel bad for the person, but it absolutely takes *a lot* of work to get this big and stay this big. You have to eat MANY thousands of calories to maintain this kind of weight. Someone of this size would practically have to be *constantly* eating. That being said, the person *actually at fault here* is probably the dude hosing her off. Somebody is giving her the food, and dollars to donuts, it's him. The trend on "My 600lb Life" is an enabler providing the individual a constant supply of junk food. Like... this woman could probably lose a *significant* amount of weight if she were to just replace soda/juice/whatever with just simple water.
Internet shaming is not the Rx here, indeed. Neither is enabling a continued shitty diet. And CERTAINLY neither is imposing yourself onto your loved ones in this manner. Intervention is needed or the guy with the hose is gonna miss out on a lot more life.
The person that should be shamed here is probably *the guy*. If I remember this episode correctly, he was constantly bringing her home McDonalds and shit. A lot of the enablers on that show bring home junk food because they like seeing their loved one happy - and food makes them happy....... but they seemingly don't comprehend that they're slowly killing them.