Juat had a letter about going to see a phycotherapist!

[londonlady243 1]

Hi all,

I am just starting out my journey to surgery and have juat recived a letter saying that i have scored high on the paper test and asking the phycotherapist if i should be seen for binge eating disorder ? Am really confused as i dont conisder myself as a binge eater. Has anyone else gone through the same process

[ShirleyJ84 41]

I received the same letter but mine was in regards to depression. This was eight months after I did my psych eval also. Aggravated the snot out of me. But I was a good little girl and did the sessions they wanted me to do. It will all be over before you know it.

[pik 262]

My letter stated that I was fine mentally to go forward with the surgery but that I may have a little hesitation. At that time, that was absolutely the case.

[londonlady243 1]

I think im just going to have to go through the motions and just keep foucused on where i want to be. I have spoken to my husband and even he says that i am not a binge eater who knows maybe i read the questionaire wrong and answered inccorectly either that or i am very dissalousioned lol thank you for responding x

[UrsulasShadow 59]

Hi all,

I am just starting out my journey to surgery and have juat recived a letter saying that i have scored high on the paper test and asking the phycotherapist if i should be seen for binge eating disorder ? Am really confused as i dont conisder myself as a binge eater. Has anyone else gone through the same process

I'm absolutely crushed and disappointed...angry, too! Same thing just happened to me. I am NOT a binge-eater most of the time, but I admitted to finishing off an occasional bag of chips over the course of my life. Now I need 6 months of psychotherapy??? I'm so upset. I may not have insurance in 6 months. I was holding off any career moves until I got through this, and now half of my year is lost.

I'm hoping that another program will accept me without the therapy, so that's what I'm exploring now. If I thought I needed therapy, I wouldn't hesitate to accept this, but I have binged maybe 5 times in my adult life, and not recently.

[UrsulasShadow 59]

Ok, I'm calmer now.

I spent the last week trying to reach my LicSW to find out why oh WHY she had me down as a binge eater. Well, she read back her notes to me, and the notes of the meeting that the whole team had, and guess what? She has me as a binge eater because that's what I TOLD her I am. Some of the things I told her were that I eat beyond hunger (usually because I eat too fast), and that I eat when I am not hungry, but possibly angry or stressed or bored. Although some of the things I said to her may have been a little exaggerated, they were close enough to the truth to have given her no choice than to label me a binge eater. So, even though I don't consider myself as one, I must be treated as one.

I may continue with this program, I may switch to another program, but in either case, I'm documenting everything I eat, along with my mood and life events, and going to start counseling whether or not it's required. I didn't get to this weight by mindful eating, that's for sure, and if I need a little help getting a grasp on things, then that's what I'll get.

[craftyme 0]

I am currently in the program at Kaiser South Sacramento. They have an awesome team and a psych eval is part of the pre-surgery protocol. Because I am being treated for depression I have to be stable for 3 months before they will even schedule surgery. I just went back on meds at the end of June so I am looking at a little delay but not too bad. I should be scheduled at the end of October or early November.

[ready2B 263]

Yikes! I have my psych eval this coming Monday and these stories have me scared. But then again, I guess it's a bit of a warning to me to be careful about what I say and how it could be misconstrued. I don't think I've ever binged, though of course I've overeaten (is there anyone in America who hasn't?). And I've eaten times when I wasn't hungry but stressed or bored, etc. What do they consider "normal enough" to have surgery? Surely they don't think we got to this point having a perfectly healthy relationship with food!

[pik 262]

Yikes! I have my psych eval this coming Monday and these stories have me scared. But then again, I guess it's a bit of a warning to me to be careful about what I say and how it could be misconstrued. I don't think I've ever binged, though of course I've overeaten (is there anyone in America who hasn't?). And I've eaten times when I wasn't hungry but stressed or bored, etc. What do they consider "normal enough" to have surgery? Surely they don't think we got to this point having a perfectly healthy relationship with food!

The test I took was pretty long and there were many questions. Some of them were asking the same questions over and over but in a different way. They ask you not to sit there and think about the question but to pick the first thing that pops in your mind.

I had a nice discussion with the dr and my test came out exactly what I was telling him. I was not sure about the surgery.