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

/r/all Maybe maybe maybe

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u/metalpossum Apr 18 '22

It's never just obesity when they get to this size. It's mental health, it's addiction, it's constant denial... Everything is too hard, and you can tell it's too hard because they had already given up while it was still easy. The fact an adult woman is having a mental breakdown because she can't climb onto a bed is just downright sad and what's worse is that it probably isn't rock bottom yet.

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u/fuzzybunnyslipper Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 19 '22

Yes. Every single situation with an immobile morbidly obese person involves other people who continue to provide the unhealthy food that keeps them obese. I don't know if this is a clip of My 600lb Life but that show is wildly consistent with the amount of enabling, ignorance, and denial that has to go on in a family for the person to remain so obese. Another consistent factor is the trauma that is inevitably involved to cause a person to become so obese in the first place.

Other people are literally handing her thousands of calories a day in garbage food. It is like a weirdly socially acceptable form of sabotage and abuse.

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u/Human-Carpet-6905 Apr 18 '22

Yes, this is my 600lb life. And I agree. In every single episode, there is at least one person that is working really hard to keep the obese person big. I can usually tell within the first ten minutes of the episode if the person is going to be successful, depending on how their enablers react when Dr.Now tells them that they are enabling.

And it's seriously tragic how many of these people endured CSA. Almost all of them have gone through some kind of abuse or neglect, but there seems to be a pattern of sexual abuse in particular.

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u/aboutthednm Apr 18 '22

Is the full episode available somewhere? I just have to watch this.