Hello Dr. Pursuit???
Hello Dr. Pursuit???
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63670168
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At least in regards to surgery, y'all realize it just genuinely is more dangerous to receive surgery as a fat person, right? Anesthesia is already a delicate balance, and the more fat there is to metabolize it, the thinner the line between not waking up during the surgery and never waking up again becomes. Any sort of surgical wounds heal much slower and worse, since it's basically impossible to sew fat back up.
And look, doctors really don't want you to have to spend money, especially here in the USA where healthcare is incredibly expensive. Losing weight does help alleviate the symptoms, and if there's still a problem, the medicine will likely be more effective since excess amounts of fat cause issues with absorbing medicines.
This isn't a moral judgement on being fat, but please, for Christ sakes, listen to your doctors.
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Sometimes people with addictions need a little tough love like that.
Why do people do this? Is it just easier than the more difficult solution of giving someone a sense of connection and a sense of being seen...?
Fuck... If you've ever spent time with a population of addicts, you know they are the toughest people on themselves. They know they are going to die. And they know that everything they've tried failed to change that course. If you've ever met those people, which are most addicts own their addiction, you know that this is just another drop in the shame bucket.
If you can't sit with how off base your comment was, you need to really look you at yourself in the mirror.
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My ex has been sober now for a couple of years, is a super intelligent and rational guy. Very calm. Emotionally intelligent.
We couldn't convince him to sober up, no matter how firm, rational, or blunt we were with him, and thus we broke up.
I asked him what finally got him to sober up, he said he met someone who connected with him without judgement and gave him hope.
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Do you have any peer reviewed journal articles on the efficacy of being mean to people? We've been asshats to fat people for a really long time and, I hate to break it to you, it hasn't made anybody thinner. So next time you think about giving some "tough love" to somebody, remember that it doesn't work and you're just finding an excuse to be a garbage person.
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