psychology evaluation today!

[DaddyMarie 291]

The psych evaluation was the one test I was actually excited about. I got As in college in My Psych classes so this stuff has always fascinated me. My psych was a cool laid back hippy chick. She was nurturing, listened and calmed me. She spent an hour doing one on one talking with me. We talked about everything and I was really open and honest with her. She wanted to make sure that I have thought about all aspects of surgery and making sure I have positive outlet to redirect my addiction to to that is positive, making sure I had a clear grasp of life after surgery and my expectations being realistic. It was a breeze!

[CBT 450]

The psych eval is all about catching psychopathology, mental illness that is otherwise undetected or untreated that included Body Dysmorphic Disorder and history of or current eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

These are things no one should be hiding if they are having WLS. The other stuff, like being a jerk (lol) or neurotic or having daddy issues aren't determinants of WLS. Just really good info for your team to have.

Several of you mentioned the lie scales. It's important for your surgeon to know if you have a tendency to fake good. To be people pleasing, etc. this WLS stuff has such an impact on identity. Don't stress. It's not easy to feel like you have someone digging so deep. But it's not like "all will be revealed tonight on Bariatrics" (not teasing) look at the personalities of some of the people on this board! You got nothing to worry about

My psych eval was long. Two appointments. First appointment was testing and the second was interview. I knew based on her interview that she was recommending me to surgery. She said things like "when you go to a restaurant you will just not take home a doggie bag..." She was talking about my life post sleeve.

I had my next surgeon appointment scheduled and told her when that was so she had the eval done and to my surgeon.

It's important to be honest. It helps your bariatric team know how to support you.

Good luck peeps!