600 lb man

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I suppose my AIBU is to not have any pity for him? Just watched a documentary tonight and he abused his family - abused the health care staff looking after him to the point he was removed from the hospital.

Blackmailed his father into ordering him pizzas almost daily and abused medics by calling ER to be admitted to hospital claiming he was in pain, all the while winking at the camera and just wanting to get 'high'.

I've had a bit of a argument with a friend as she says he obviously unwell to get in that situation - my argument is if you abuse the people trying to help you, ignore your consultant's advice then there has to be a line drawn.

He is/was a horrible person who can't take any responsibility and in denial

I didn’t see the programme but I think anyone that is effectively eating themselves to death does have a MH problem.

Was this the Assanti brothers episode? I was annoyed with him too! He was very abusive to the nurses and his family

According to his Family and main Doctor, his nastiness stemmed from being addicted to the pain killers that he needed. The program is edited for your viewing.

Would we watch a heroin addict kill themselves on screen? That's what he was in effect doing.

To get to that size, there is MH issues. So you are condemning him because of the symptoms of his MH. It you are OK with that, fine.

He's dead at 41, after living in misery, with very little real quality of life, at least you can take comfort from that.

I think at 600lbsbits safe to say he has an eating disorder. I don't think MH problems should be an excuse for acting like a jerk but they can certainly bring out the worst in people. If he's addicted to pain meds then he's probably incredibly irritable been kept away from them. I would feel sorry for someone who had taken this path in life but that doesn't mean that id like them.

What channels this on ?

Thanks

Is this a reality TV show, "my 600lb life" presumably? And you're taking the editing seriously?

Anyone who eats themselves to that size is self harming badly and clearly needs help. I think YABU to dismiss that so glibly.

He doesn't sound like a nice person but then lots of addicts and mentally ill people don't behave well. I think it's possible to be critical of bad behaviour but still have sympathy for a person with an illness.

Anyone who eats themselves to that size is self harming badly and clearly needs help. I think YABU to dismiss that so glibly

^This. There's serious mental illness at play there, it's simplistic to just put it down as him being a horrible person.

The brothers "have claimed a childhood of abuse at the hands of their alcoholic mother led to a life of obesity"

Article says they were both subject to violence from their alcoholic mother's boyfriend and a very dysfunctional relationship with their father (if you watched the programme thar aspect of their relationship with their father was clear)

My 600lb Life brothers reveal how their difficult childhood led to six-pizza-a-day diet and a lifetime of obesity