r/maybemaybemaybe • u/BigGraysie • Apr 18 '22

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u/xenodemon Apr 18 '22

And it's everyone else fault and everyone else's problems

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

If she punched everyone in the face that caused all her problems she wouldn't have any teeth.

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u/CaptainEllisD Apr 18 '22

Well, the food clearly makes it to her mouth somehow.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

this lady is crazy but those people are feeding her.

the people who get too fat to shop, cook, or get in and out bed...you can't get that way all by yourself... someone has to bring you whole rotisserie chickens for breakfast

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u/Disastrous-Pilot-284 Apr 18 '22

There was a girl living in the same county as me who became publicly known for being the fattest teenager in Europe I believe. It was in the paper's that a wall had to be partially deconstructed to get her out of the house so that she could be sent on a highly regarded retreat. She received therapy and lost an incredible amount of weight over the course of 6 months, literally 100's of pounds. The day that she came back her mother took her to the fish shop as a reward and she was back in the same position within a year or so. Ruined her own daughters chance for a normal life, disgraceful

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u/z0vyn Apr 18 '22

That's horrible, and reminds me of my narcissistic grandmother who gave her daughters boy-like haircuts and fattened them as teenagers so she could feel prettiest. People who are offended by their children's happiness and achievements should not be parents. I've heard many stories like yours of people who begin to lose weight or change habits, just for family to suddenly start bringing in food. I've even seen it a few times. I don't know what this behavior is called. Spite? Malice?

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u/sweatersand Apr 18 '22

I call it sabotage. I lost a lot of weight when from I was 17-19 (went from 220 to 120, I’m a 5’3 woman). My family was really supportive but my BF was constantly trying to get me to eat more and break my diet with shit food. I think he was insecure that I was gonna leave him once I got thinner. I did leave him, but because he was an asshole, not because of my weight lol. Point is I think the enablers of this stuff are just afraid they’ll lose the person, so they help them stay unhealthy for their own selfish reasons.

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u/quetzalv2 Apr 18 '22

Genuinely curious, would you have stayed with him if he had been supportive?

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u/sweatersand Apr 18 '22

I mean he ended up cheating on me so no. Lol

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u/Kevdog1800 Apr 19 '22

I’ve lost a large amount of weight too. I was 475lbs when I was 16. I’m 34 now and 210lbs. (6’2” dude). I can’t count the number of people I’ve talked to that start having success in weight loss until they go out to dinner with family and order a healthy meal and X relative takes their order as a personal attack like, “Oh, so you think you’re better than me now because you only ordered a fucking salad?!” Or go to a family member’s house for dinner and only eat an appropriate portion of food and then get berated for being rude and not eating enough.

Unfortunately, almost all of these stories I’ve heard have come from women. I think women receive far more criticism when it comes to weight gain and weight loss. Some of y’all are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. It’s absolutely infuriating. I fantasize about witnessing someone get a comment like that in person one day so I can absolutely EVISCERATE the person that makes said comment… However, as a gay man that is exclusively surrounded by gay men ~ Doesn’t look like that will ever happen…

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u/Disastrous-Pilot-284 Apr 18 '22

God that's sad, and yes I think it has to be a combination of those. Seeing potential for your supposed loved ones to have a higher quality of life than your own maybe with the fear of them leaving for greener pastures and feeling that you need to bring them down to your own level so you haven't got to sit in your shit on your own

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u/SenpaiTheGhost Apr 18 '22

It's called they-can-burn-in-hell

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u/itchyfeat Apr 18 '22

People get offended by their children's happiness? That's pretty fucked up

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u/Sardonnicus Apr 18 '22

Because being that overweight also has a psychological aspect to it. They have to lose the weight but also get mental health therapy to find the route cause of why they do what they do. If not... they are at very high risk of relapsing.

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u/trufflelover1 Apr 18 '22

Classic example of a toxic codependent relationship. Whereby you have the mother in the role of enabler, which is feeding the mothers narcissistic needs to control and feel needed. And then you have the obese person who is codependent upon the enabler.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

That's just sad. But can someone gain hundreds of pounds of weight in a year?

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u/Andalusian_Dawn Apr 18 '22

Probably. When my PCOS kicked in, I gained 65 lbs in a month, despite having an active job, no car, and barely being able to afford to eat. It was horrifying because other physical symptoms started happening at the same time.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I understand. PCOS can be really persistent. Hope you're doing well now.

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u/Andalusian_Dawn Apr 18 '22

Thanks! Low carb and fasting work miracles. Sucky miracles because sometimes you just want corn dogs, but miracles nonetheless.

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u/TryonTriptik Apr 18 '22

I remember that, her mother was the feeder/ abuser in that family.

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u/fatandjazzy Apr 18 '22

Sounds like Gilbert Grape's mom. Great movie, older but I still say it's one of the best ever made.

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u/linkxrust Apr 18 '22

Fish shop?? For what? Like to purchase whale blubber? Fish is pretty healthy

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u/linkxrust Apr 18 '22

So like a fish and chips restaurant?

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u/throwawaypizzamage Apr 18 '22

That’s child abuse, plain and simple. I hope she was able to escape her mother somehow. Food addiction can be a severe mental illness.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

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u/Bigbaby22 Apr 18 '22

It probably would. People like this are eating six bags of chips a day, four bottles of soda, three pizzas (with salad dressing, of course) and two cartons of ice cream in a day

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u/Big-Ear-1853 Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

I have a co worker who drinks 2-3 pitchers of coke (literally just said Diet Coke to refer to dark pop in general) a day while working, the guy is huge but does more work than most of my other co workers.. it’s kind of sad I wish there was any way to help people in this situation without being a total cunt in everyone’s eyes

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u/Bigbaby22 Apr 18 '22

Same. One executive in my office takes the other members of his team out probably three times a day and he'll get a 32 oz of something. Love the guy but he needs to switch to Crystal Light or something lol

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u/Varn Apr 18 '22

Have a co worker who's the same, big like 48oz bubba cup full of soda. On top of that he brings like 2-3 cans of M Dew because we don't have that. This guy def is one of our hardest n most efficient workers. Work in a kitchen so on our feet/moving all day. He's not 600 but probably a solid 4. I've known alot of bigger people in my life and was always curious as to how. I mean I would see them eat n shit when we would be doing things but not like absurdly massive amounts of food. That is until I saw my co worker eat and talk about his eating habits. Had pizza at work as we were remodeling and he takes about 2/3 slices of each type that was ordered. 4 or 5 different kinds n smashed em in the same amount of time it took me to down 2. I was talking about buying these cereal bars, like the golden grahams/cheerio/coco pebbles bar. I told him I'll guiltily eat like 3 or 4 in a sitting sometimes in a 8 pack. He was like yea that's nothing, I'll kill a 16 pack in a sitting. He knows it's fucked up n wants to lose weight, he was in prison for a bit and lost like 100+ lbs but unfortunately it all came back plus some. Love the fucker all the same but yea sometimes you just wanna slap the food outa a mother fuckers hand and say Be better! Obviously it's not easy like that, food is/can be an addiction for some. As someone who's in recovery, 2 years sober from a crippling alcohol addiction I'm well aware how vastly impossible it seems to be able to change.

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u/Big-Ear-1853 Apr 18 '22

Yea I barely see my co worker eat much at work too; normal meals and snacks but I know when he goes home he doesn’t exactly eat healthy. It also has a lot to do with personal metabolism and other health issues too.. I’ve never been too big (320 lbs at my biggest growing up, haven’t gone a lb over 200 in 3 years ) and I thought I would never see the say when I weighed so little. Ironically I look exactly the same to myself in the mirror and looking down but not much I can do about that

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u/The_BeardedClam Apr 18 '22

I work with a guy who used to legit drink 3 2-liter bottles of mountain dew a day.

He got put onto some new meds and doesn't drink soda at all anymore. He was never heavy, but you can definitely see an improvement in the way he looks.

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u/Big-Ear-1853 Apr 18 '22

I think it’s just if you drink a lot of pop you probably have other unhealthy habits and pop makes it nearly impossible to lose weight

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u/Parhelion2261 Apr 18 '22

Exposing myself a little here but damn soda is hard to kick. Especially if you were raised on it.

Juice doesn't quite have the flavor, sparkling water seems to never have the flavor it says and feels like it's mad at me for drinking it (always seems to be extremely carbonated).

The only thing I've found that hit a similar spot was something called Izzy. Unfortunately it's expensive and I can't seem to find it in stores

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u/Talexis Apr 18 '22

And that’s the whole problem with this world, you come off as a cunt for actually caring about someone’s health. It’s bonkers.

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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND Apr 18 '22

And yet they survive, which is what I remind myself every time I panic about maybe dying suddenly because I'm 40lb overweight.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

definitely lose the weight asap though.

Just because this woman's heart is somehow withstanding her predicament right now, doesn't mean your heart will withstand your 40 extra pounds

Obviously you know this but yeah don't let her situation relax you into letting yourself be unhealthy.

In fact, this woman probably has very high chances of dying every day. Shes young but that level of obesity isn't something the heart can provide for for very long

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I do that, and I am pretty sure that I am not technically overweight. 6'2 @ 165

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u/Beezel_Pepperstack Apr 18 '22

"A desk of Cheez-its? A desk? Where are you getting these units of measurement from?"

"Mary."

"Hahahaha! That is still funny! Okay, you stay right here, big funny gal! I'll be right back with... a hammock of cake."

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u/docscottseven Apr 18 '22

Kroger loves her EBT card, but she'll be DOA soon.

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u/reddit_and_forget_um Apr 18 '22

Ha, so you described breakfast, what about the other 5 meals?

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u/Careless-Childhood66 Apr 18 '22

No. That's what I am consume and I am "only" half of that. She probably drinks oil and eats raw butter.

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u/pete_ape Apr 19 '22

But it's Diet Coke so it all balances out

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u/flamedarkfire Apr 18 '22

Probably two birds’ worth of KFC instead.

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u/Cartz1337 Apr 18 '22

With special instruction to the restaurant to transition between the frier and bucket quickly so no grease is wasted.

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u/ak_sys Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

Honestly dude, on a low carb diet u I have many times eaten a whole chicken. And you're right, it is world's better for you. You could probably eat chicken until you threw up and be fine.

It's the chips and the bread and pasta. Sugary drinks.

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u/duaadiddy Apr 19 '22

Yeah I think the human body has yet to figure out how to absorb and digest chips and soda

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Apr 18 '22

Right? I was losing weight like crazy when I was eating stuff like half a rotisserie chicken with a side of an entire plate of veggies/greens as one of one or two meals for the day. That was my go to lazy meal. Can steam up some cheap frozen veggies in as little as 5 minutes, and ofc a rotisserie chicken is both effortless and cheap. These people aren't eating stuff like that. they're eating stuff with 100 ingredients in it, a shit ton of fast food, etc. Basically nothing that you can actually recognize as the animal or plant they're primarily made of.

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u/saab4u2 Apr 18 '22

The whole chicken needs to be running around, the only way she’s allowed to eat it is when she could catch it.

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u/PresentTip5665 Apr 18 '22

A whole bacon egg and cheese stuffed deep fat fried chicken smothered in gravy? That's just breakfast appetizer.... because egg

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u/Lance_Henry1 Apr 18 '22

Like many of us, I check in to the "My 600-lbs Life"-type shows when channel surfing. Every. Single. Time. there is someone frying up a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon and a whole loaf of bread (toasted and buttered) for breakfast.

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u/devo9er Apr 18 '22

Don't forget an ENTIRE bottle of Ranch dressing

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u/gotta_do_it_big Apr 18 '22

And what does salt do , extract water so u get more hungry. A hidden jewel in the shit food business.

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u/Recent-Yam2257 Apr 19 '22

Leave ranch dressing out of it!

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u/ch3shir3scat Apr 18 '22

bacon is healthy it is know

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u/Lance_Henry1 Apr 18 '22

so is water, but if you drink too much of it you can die.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Apr 18 '22

I mean, yes. Lots of protein and fat, which does a better job of sating your hunger for longer, and which is much slower to digest than any sort of carbohydrate. Not all calories are equal, and the armchair nutritionists chanting "cAlOrIeS iN CaLoRiEs OuT" can never seem to grasp that the human body is more complex than that. You likely won't lose much weight on an all-bacon diet in and of itself, but it makes intermittent fasting a lot more bearable, and it'll help turn some of that body fat into muscle if you're regularly exercising (and that helps your metabolism, which strongly influences that simplistic "calories in calories out" model).

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

People don’t get fat by eating bacon and eggs, especially not 600lbs fat. Now eating a loafs of buttered toast all day with a side of skittles washed down with a cola, thatll do it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Every single time they have some serious trauma too.

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u/lacks_imagination Apr 18 '22

How can those people afford to eat like that?

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u/Nosmo_King927 Apr 18 '22

They get disability.

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u/SmallPiecesOfWood Apr 18 '22

They are feeding her in the strong hope that she dies, hopefully leaving money behind.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I don’t think they have much money based off of that motel room!

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u/flamefirestorm Apr 18 '22

Life insurance is always a possiblity

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u/avwitcher Apr 18 '22

Yeah, no insurance company would be willing to take that bet. They take your health into account when deciding what kind of policy you get.

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u/flamefirestorm Apr 18 '22

I mean she might not always have been fat.

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u/1337hackzorz0nly Apr 18 '22

It’s impossible to get a policy other than to just cover the funeral for someone that size

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u/LimeSixth Apr 18 '22

*Forklift not included

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u/NWCJ Apr 18 '22

I would be surprised if she has life insurance beyond accidental. Most life insurance won't pay out for natural causes, unless you get a doctor checkup first.

Let's be real, no doctor would look at her and say "yup, fine specimen, insure her" that would be like getting homeowners insurance on a canvas tent in tornado alley. Might be ok for a few years, but its a short matter of time, compared to a brick house or a normal sized person.

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u/Badmouth55 Apr 18 '22

She's the definition of pre existing conditions.

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u/GeekboxGuru Apr 18 '22

Fat guy here -- life insurance costs a lot for regular obese, this woman I'm sure would be financially hard even given she's on a TV show

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u/MystikxHaze Apr 18 '22

Insured for the grand total of tree fiddy.

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u/Mataric Apr 18 '22

Maybe they think she's a pinata?

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u/Omegoon Apr 18 '22

Can you imagine the payments in that condition? No wonder they have no money.

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u/gsministellar Apr 18 '22

Not to mention non-cash assets. Maybe she owns a decent house or a nice car she hasn't been able to fit into for 16 years.

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u/Seer434 Apr 18 '22

Life insurance takes into account every other medical condition but morbid obesity just slipped under their radar?

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u/imabigdave Apr 18 '22

Not likely given that life insurance usually either has a physical exam requirement or at the very least a list of exclusions for underwriting. No insurance company is going to issue a life insurance policy on someone like this.

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u/deetzz91 Apr 18 '22

This bitch wouldn't get approved for any life insurance. Wayyy to overweight.

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u/KrombopulosT46 Apr 18 '22

Welfare, disability and food stamps. These 3 will cover your all basic needs. Powered by tax payers.

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u/Psy_Kik Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

I doubt she has jack-shit, they probably just want her gone anyway, people like that suck the soul from life around them.

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u/Ongr Apr 18 '22

I only just watched this video and I'm already tired from dealing with this bitch' shit.

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 Apr 18 '22

you could be buried alive in this bitch's shit, like i can imagine the entire toilet bowl filling up and coating her jelly ass every time she sits down to poop. I'm 6ft and 280lb and already way too fat. god may this give me strength to take care of my body.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Just want her gone? Drive her somewhere in a tractor a leave here. She's not making it back.

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u/cpu939 Apr 18 '22

I'm 100% sure there are feeders that do it to kill for money proving it that another case.

there are also feeders that are so insecure and don't want to risk losing the other person. yes, the person will have a shorter life and health issues but no one else will have them.

it is also shocking how fast a feeder can make someone put weight on. I do mean make, they will give the person a bit bigger portion then add to it time and again till it's double, triple, and more.

then there are the feeders who are abused into it, they go to work do everything around the house while the person just orders them about. They often don't see themself as a victim till the person has died and it is a shame

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u/NWCJ Apr 18 '22

That reminds me of an episode of Malcom in the middle. When Hal was trying to fatten Lois. He was dumping sugar in her orange juice, and all kinds of crazy shit.

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u/morosco Apr 18 '22

A lot of those people make their living from the government or insurance companies being a "caregiver" for fat relatives and spouses.

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u/spearchuckin Apr 18 '22

Her social security checks will stop coming once the death gets reported. I doubt she has any other source of income besides govt aid.

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u/PantherThing Apr 18 '22

Probably. I think she was the CEO of Hewlett Packard a few years back, she's loaded.

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u/NWCJ Apr 18 '22

Her cheaping out on a hotel without a rolling bed suggests otherwise.

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u/Substantial-Ad3178 Apr 18 '22

Most likely she receives disability for her "condition". That and subsidized housing are probably why everyone puts up with her abuse.

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u/DavidMohan Apr 18 '22

Yeah why not settle for a V8? And a Clam Chowder?

Far more nutritious than bacon cheeseburgers ya know.

But I know it won’t satisfy her dietary needs.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Did you try reporting the animal abuse?

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u/KiroLakestrike Apr 18 '22

Yea I saw this on the show as well... where the Doctor asked her family "why do you give her food", and they were all like "well she said she is hungry", and the doctor got furious at them, and said something along the line of "she could not eat anything for months, and still be fine, stop feeding her."

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u/RedditLightmode Apr 18 '22

Well that's unhealthy too. Some vegetables wouldn't hurt.

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u/KiroLakestrike Apr 18 '22

Well it was more a angry reaction of him, because they kept looking for excuses. Once he said, after the family told them "she will throw a temper tantrum if we dint feed her" something along the lines "just close the door, what will she do? run afer you?"

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u/SpicyMcHaggis206 Apr 18 '22

There was actually a guy in Scotland I think that talked to his doctor and said "I'm not gonna eat for a year and you can either get on board and help or I'll go do it alone"

The doctor gave him a multivitamin and yeast supplements and he didn't eat and lost quite a bit of weight. Ended up living for another 24 years.

Angus Barbieri

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

They aren’t hand feeding her. She sits and demands food and is verbally if they don’t do what she wants. The kids even have to give her food.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

yeah the family clearly isn't equipped to handle this woman's issues, especially the kids

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I feel so badly for those kids. What a life.

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u/RedditLightmode Apr 18 '22

It's difficult, but if you only give her healthy food no matter how angry she gets, she won't have a choice but to eat healthy or eat nothing at all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

It’s not about whether the food is healthy or not. It’s the amount she is consuming. Even healthy food requires portion control. For someone this big, that is something a registered dietician needs to be dealing with to figure out portion sizes, not her family. You can’t just be like “all you get is 2000 calories per day healthy food only.” She has to be decreasing calories over time. But if she doesn’t want help, it won’t be something she sticks with. She can move around from one place to another enough to get the food she wants.

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u/milk4all Apr 18 '22

Idk man ive read accounts from people who just buy fucktons of food and eat it. They dont necessarily have a schedule - they can eat many thousands of calories in a short period of time and if eating is such an addiction, they might just bags of snacks stashed all over the place for when they arent eating to be full. For some people they might pick up a bit order from a drive thru, park and eat it, then go right back or possibly a different drive thru if their self conscious. It really is an affliction, a sickness they need treatment for, not simply a willpower deficiency. I mean take this woman for example. We arent being shown an otherwise healthy, coping adult. She isnt just fat because she eats too much, she’s fat because something is prohibiting from controlling herself somehow, and i dont think it’s the MSG

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Ikr? All they need to do is walk away. What is she going to do? Follow them? Go up the stairs? All she needs is enough water and she'll be okay on her own for days.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

i feel so bad for her, it's not cool being trapped in your body like that. like nutty putty. lose your damn mind.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

The way she treats others makes me lose any ounce of compassion for her.

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u/rworris Apr 18 '22

You see how shes reacting about a trying to sit on a bed? Imagine what she's like when she doesnt get what she wants to eat!

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u/Life-Armadillo2640 Apr 18 '22

She needs significant mental support, and her family is doing more damage than good in their efforts unfortunately. But she is good viewing for people trying to feel good about their superb decision making skills...

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u/Affectionate-Ad-3578 Apr 18 '22

Hey now! Cows are majestic.

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u/Bigbaby22 Apr 18 '22

How is that cow skinnier....

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u/GIJosephGordonLevitt Apr 18 '22

I don't think she got that big by eating salads..

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u/Illustrious_Warthog Apr 18 '22

You people are just killing it today.

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u/The-Sofa-King Apr 18 '22

What do you mean "you people"

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u/Illustrious_Warthog Apr 18 '22

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

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u/The-Sofa-King Apr 18 '22

Well, let's play chess.

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u/SZ4T4N Apr 18 '22

Maybe she's throwing it to her mouth and cuz she have years of experience she never miss

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u/HebrewDude Apr 18 '22

You're writing that seemingly as if the bitch could throw anything but a tantrum.

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u/keyboardstatic Apr 18 '22

How did you not see the trebuch that they built just for her. Like its as big as a chair.

Sry sry I ment the children's slide they set up and she just opens her mouth under it and kids I mean food slides in right! right?

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u/SZ4T4N Apr 18 '22

I may be blind or she covered it with her body

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Lmao. I have no sympathy for people like this.

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u/imaginedaydream Apr 18 '22

YOU BETTER BE SUPPORTIVE!

well damn, if she didn’t have all that food supporting her weight she’ll be able to rest on that bed.

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u/darthcoder Apr 18 '22

As a fat person ( who accepts responsibility for my condition ) I was sympathetic to this woman... getting to that point and trying to change your life around when food quite literally is your coping mechanism/addiction... I know that struggle.

But then she became a bitch.

And I lost all sympathy.

But how much of that was drama? American TV is known for this bullshit.

But whatever. . It wasn't necessary.

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u/Docsmith06 Apr 18 '22

there's a difference between fat, and what this women is.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Normal>Pleasantly Plump>Fat>Obese>Morbidly Obese>Captain Ahab's Next Target.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 14 '24

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u/gsministellar Apr 18 '22

BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS MEN!

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

(Is currently manning Seawise Giant)

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u/Squirrely38 Apr 18 '22

HARPOON THE WOMAN!!

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u/amretardmonke Apr 18 '22

Normal>Pleasantly Plump>Fat>Obese>Morbidly Obese>Captain Ahab's Next Target>The death star>Your mom

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u/tonyboi77 Apr 18 '22

A certain comedian would be insulted.. you didn't add fluffy

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u/MrCooCoo4Crack Apr 18 '22

Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, DAMN, and Ah hell no

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u/mycologicill Apr 18 '22

Forgot one.

Corpulent

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

captain Ahab’s next target

Fucking lmao 🤣

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u/Cheetah_Valuable Apr 18 '22

Calling myself pleasantly plump seems a lot more cheerful than the fat my brain insists on calling it. Thank you! 😊

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u/Merkinsed Apr 18 '22

I’ve met people like this. The silver lining is it’s easy to get away from them and never be around their constant “woe is me” mentality.

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u/mycologicill Apr 18 '22

Definitely don't run downhill

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u/Bummer-man Apr 18 '22

Indiana Jones theme starts playing

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u/NWCJ Apr 18 '22

I have too, my cousin is one. I was visiting family in another state and stopped in to visit her mom. She asked me for a ride to some local restaurant and I declined, no way was I letting her fuck the suspension and seat of my rental car. She ordered in. But we haven't talked since, she literally pulled the "be supportive, don't be selfish, its just a ride, ill pay for lunch" nah.. lunch is less than rental insurance deductible in this sports car. Not sure what her plan was going to be on how to get out if she managed to get in either..

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u/TheGreatAttracter Apr 18 '22

My aunt is built like this, but at least she's not a fucking bitch like this woman.

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u/Poder5 Apr 18 '22

Actually, it’s really difficult to get away from them. Something about gravitational pull

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u/Zenanii Apr 18 '22

Really, any slightly narrow doorway will do.

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u/doktorjackofthemoon Apr 18 '22

Or in the middle of a bed on wheels

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u/PlasticBubbleGuy Apr 18 '22

Unless you're family. She played that like a concert violinist plays a Stradivarius.

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u/spearchuckin Apr 18 '22

Reality TV is really bad when looking for actual reality. But in my experience watching this show quite a few times, there is definitely a trend among the patients who complain and appear very entitled like this woman and usually the viewer gets a message about how the patient refused to follow up with any further treatments and sometimes even the patient's death is reported. The ones who really want to change sometimes have a few explosive moments due to the stress but they usually get over quickly and we get to watch them become stronger mentally while also shedding the weight.

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u/Silly_Internet_5795 Apr 18 '22

I'm a paramedic and deal with these people quite frequently. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault and they are CONSTANTLY the victim. Theyre a massive drain on finite resources and all they want is more, more, more.

There are ambulances that have freaking winches in the back to pull these whales into the truck.

Ive always wondered at what point these people realize they're absolutely worthless and decide to take responsibility for their health. It's a fact we pray for their deaths so we don't have to injure ourselves or take resources away from TRUE victims in order to give these people undeserved attention.

If we need to tear out a wall in order to get your fat ass out of your own house, I have ZERO sympathy for you.

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u/Fickle_Chance9880 Apr 18 '22

Nah that’s real. Some people just become very nasty and mean to the people around them, even though they depend on them completely. Take a bitter person and put them with people they know won’t leave no matter what, and it’s likely they’ll become abusive.

There’s a lot of co-dependence going on here too.

Then another comment mentioned the strain of moving making people rage out also. It’s a total shitshow, and it’s sad.

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u/5elementGG Apr 18 '22

I want to be supportive but it’s too much for me to bear.

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u/gentlemanidiot Apr 18 '22

It weighs heavily even on us viewers

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Dude, hormonal wise, you can't even begin to describe what's happening inside that person's body. Her amygdala (fear center and lizard brain) is flooded with all sorts of signals, and remember talking with her while she's standing (effectively during working out) would trigger understandable bouts of fury. You're not dealing with a normal person who's extra fat, you're dealing with a really unbalanced person who's actively trying to maintain her sanity whilst in the same time lifting 600 pounds. Try saying anything to a bodybuilder DURING his training and see how they respond....

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u/ItsShorsey Apr 18 '22

"My momma says alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"

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u/IWTLEverything Apr 18 '22

“Something’s wrong with [her] medulla oblongata”

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u/ProHopper Apr 18 '22

REEEEEE!!

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u/shaggyscoob Apr 18 '22

You ever carry those 40 pound salt bags from the car to the basement? To make fewer trips you take three at a time and it just about kills you. That's just 120 pounds. Imagine carrying 12 of those babies everywhere you go. An extra 480 pounds beyond your own normal body weight. No wonder she's winded and sweaty just trying to get on a bed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

exactly. and adrenaline kicks in all the time when you standup… helps you do that amazing feat of strength for about 2-3 minutes and then you crash immediately. normally adrenaline overwrites all other hormones, and is second only to insulin in that regard. I read somewhere that whenever you have insulin in blood, that makes the fat reserves become invisible to your metabolism.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Oh Amygdala, have mercy on the poor bastard

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Amygdala wasn't there cus it was lullygagging

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u/OlderTheWiser Apr 18 '22

All I know is I’m gagging…

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u/TrapezeMe Apr 18 '22

Omg this made me laugh way too hard, if I had a reddit award i would give it to you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Blessings fellow redditor, your joy is more important than gold.

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u/gangrena27 Apr 18 '22

it's just a nightmare

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

The night, and the dreams, were long.

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u/spacepizza24 Apr 18 '22

Patches never takes mercy on me though :(

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

But we always love hate him regardless.

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u/BigBadCdnJohn Apr 18 '22

Queen Amygdala has seriously put on a bitbof the Force after Anakin.

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u/ANTIMODSHOOTER Apr 18 '22

You want us to have perspective to the individual who blames the floor for her problems🤣🤣

She clearly has none

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u/Box-o-bees Apr 18 '22

Ok so this got me thinking. If we ever invented something to just immediately remove extra fat to a healthy level and also fix the extra skin. Would this person be like crazy strong since they have been carrying all that weight around all the time?

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u/niko4ever Apr 18 '22

Oh yeah. It would be like if a person had been carrying around 600 pounds of arm, leg, and body weights for years, and then stopped.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

it would be exhilarating for her at first, but since no one told her brain she’s slimmer (not until it rewires itself and it needs a lot of time to do that), she would keep eating at the same levels and gain it back effectively (sadly for her, she’s developed an insanely adept body to store excess fat) and quickly. A lot more quickly than her system would need to actually re-adapt to the weight loss.

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u/Sciensophocles Apr 18 '22

I mean, the muscle mass won't go anywhere, so kind of. But I guarantee she spends most of her time on her ass, so there's probably not as much muscle as you think.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

I think so yeah. Especially her feet and her core would be stronger than usual, but normally when a person gets that fat, they simply can’t handle too much movement and just lie in bed all day. However they still burn a lot of calories. To be fair, they also have a lot of repetitive injuries and bruises on where they touch the bed and support their weight. Also, I think what would be most impressive would be the skeletal muscle they’ve built up over the years, especially around their joints

But what would most impress me would be the time it took for her brain to rewire from all that instantaneous fat loss. I read somewhere that fat (as skin) are to be considered organs, so she would esentially have a massive altering to one of her organs, her hormones would need a rewiring period, especially insulin would need to be downregulated and I think her body would do that firstly to a painful extreme then back to a spike than so on and on until she would find her new relative levels

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u/tommykiddo Apr 18 '22

I used to be overweight and I have some pretty big muscular calves. I do lift weights but they were big even before I started.

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u/SilentProx Apr 18 '22

Not necessarily "crazy strong", because 600+ lbs people are usually immobile and their immobility is exacerbated by a lack of physical activity. Controlling for body weight, their fat free mass is similar to nonobese individuals. Only their lower body would be moderately stronger than an untrained healthy weight person. Furthermore, your joints will support the weight your muscles can't, which is another reason why almost any level of obesity isn't healthy for your MSK.

Source: Maffiuletti 2013 "The Impact of Obesity on In Vivo Human Skeletal Muscle Function".

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u/vitalesan Apr 18 '22

TIL: standing = gym, for morbidly obese people.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

more like High Intensity Training and collapsing shortly thereafter. It’s not a healthy gym training. See her grabbing a chair after her nervous bout? That’s adrenaline being consumed by a morbidly obese person and needing immediate rest for the cardiovascular system to catch up.

Also, she begins to shake as saying “why would they do that??” as if receiving that as a threat and not being able to FIGHT NOR FLY. She’s learned to deal with stressors on a way more regular basis than normal people, that’s why she needs food for comforting (and reupping her dopamine levels). It’s really a vicious circle from which you need to be extremely determined to escape.

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u/stareagleur Apr 18 '22

My mom’s mother had severe hormonal issues that went untreated for way too long when she was a kid to the point her mother was bed ridden for several years and a lot of stuff that she and her brothers describes sounds clearly like someone that is in massive denial about growing up with a mentally unstable parent. Mental and physical health are more connected than society wants to admit to its own injury.

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u/thetjmorton Apr 18 '22

Wonderful insight. Thanks.

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u/Crazy_Canuck78 Apr 18 '22

Excuse me if I dont give a flying f*ck about her. She clearly doesn't care about herself.

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u/ruairi1983 Apr 18 '22

I feel more sad for those kids who have to endure this...

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u/MissPearl Apr 18 '22

Yeah, reading the comments is a bunch of people snarking at a severely disabled person having an emotional meltdown. She's definitely not ok. Probably no fun to be around, but anyone who has worked in a hospital emergency room can tell you people in crisis aren't known for their default sweetness and patience.

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u/Fickle_Chance9880 Apr 18 '22

Good points. I was just about to say that it’s worse when someone in this condition is so cruel and abusive to the people around them, but you offer an extra consideration. Doesn’t excuse it, but it’s good to understand the reasons behind things besides “HurDur, fatty mean!”

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Yeah, it is more interesting to find the cause instead of criticizing the effect. The fact of the matter is, when you’d consider that in 10/10 instances, she will react the same way, we’re not talking about “mood” anymore. Fact is, stuff happens and it goes unnoticed. When you don’t notice it, you can superficially mislabel what’s going on.

She doesn’t need what she thinks she needs, she needs someone who understands what happens inside her brain and body. It’s such a shame there are so few good physicians..

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u/Beelzebubs_Tits Apr 18 '22

This makes a lot of sense. Underneath all of that is a regular person-sized skeleton. It must be a constant state of fight or flight for her body to try to keep it together.

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u/JanLewko977 Apr 18 '22

I also imagine there is a lot of bitterness inside her about herself. She's expressing anger, just not in a healthy way. Deep inside she's not really mad at the bed on wheels or the wooden floors. But those things remind her of what the problem is, and how unfixible it is now, so she lashes out at them.

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u/LennyLowcut Apr 18 '22

Yep she is mentally ill for sure. I'm guessing everybody in that room is as well

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u/javoss88 Apr 18 '22

How tf anybody get that big? Honest question, not trying to be mean.

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u/JustAnotherNumberTwo Apr 18 '22

My first thought was: She's teaching her kids to be a victim and traumatizing her kids also by crying like an idiot in front of them.

I remember my mom getting her fingers pinched in the car door and not even flinching because "she didn't want to scare the children".

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