For this to make me so angry - obese teenager, todays Daily Telegraph

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Basically, she was funded by her local health board to attend a programme in the USA at a cost of over £4k a month for a 9 month period....

"She said: "I'd been following a programme of healthy eating in the camp where I'd been living in North Carolina, America, and I'd learned to enjoy low-fat foods like salads, bagels, yoghurt and even buffalo meat. "I was really looking forward to trying it all out back home but, when I arrived, my mum said she hadn't had time to prepare any healthy food so we had fish and chips instead.

"From that moment on, I had a niggling feeling that things weren't going to work out."

Just being rude I think.

is that face for me Nelson?

No! For Robot!

Do you think that you're being funny robot? Because you're not. HTH

No, no - don't all leap on robotlollypopman. I feel better - because I may be depressed, but at least I am not robot!

That's true. You are genuinely funny and entertaining. Robot is a bit sad with his/her (wanna bet robot is a he?) nastiness.

I like you Sdtg too! And a note about ad's, I lost a few pounds taking them as I no longer needed so much comfort food.

It was a very glib comment though SDTG, and she/he needed to be called on it. Whilst in other circumstances it may have been funny (if in rather poor taste) in light of what has been said on this thread she/he should have realised that these issues are not that simple, and they cause people very real emotional pain.

Absolutely, Fellatio - I thought it might help to diminish it through humour.

Talking, Pixel and OTTMumma - I am ashamed to say that I didn't know about antidepressants causing weight gain. But I have been gradually cutting down my citalopram doseage over the past months, and that seems to be going very well, so hopefully I will be able to come off them altogether in the not-too-distant future.

Robob - I hope you never suffer from depression - and if you actually knew anyone who did, I suspect you would not be so glib (as Fellatio rightly says). I note you have not had the wit or courage to come back and defend your comment - which says even more about you.

be kind to people with serious problems. It may be you one day. "Gabby"

I don't think the comments about the low cost of healthy food are all that relevant: surely, the point is that the person who has the money gets to decide the food? However cheap brown rice is, if the person with the money doesn't want you to have a healthy diet, then you aren't going to get it. What are people suggesting the daughter should do? Cosh the mother over the head and help herself to her money?

Imho everything about this story suggests that the mother doesn't want her daughter to be healthy and happy and therefore potentially independent of her.

Robot - it is like hitting yourself with a brick - it is abusing yourself. It isn't supposed to make sense - that's why it's a disorder!?!