50 stone girl

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Why is this on the news?

Is it news or freak show?

Oh poor thing. She needs serious support. God what a horrid situation.

I feel very sorry for her.

I feel sory for her.

I also feel she is defrauding the state by claiming a carer's allowance while she is incapable of getting out of bed.

The person who does the shopping and bringing plates of food up to her is to blame.

Horrible situation.

The mother should be jailed for attempted murder IMO.

her issues with food started when her father died when she was 5

Poor, poor girl.

I can't see how this can be classed as anything other than abuse on the part of the mother.

CuttedUpPear: the link was to the Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen. I'n nit sure how rapacious they are in terms of hit counting.

Another thread has now been started today in AIBU too.

The Feeders need dealing with what is wrong with them? besides I really don't understand how anyone can get that bad, doesn't a time every come when you look in the mirror and say no more or is the feeder to blame for continued encouragement?

"I also feel she is defrauding the state by claiming a carer's allowance while she is incapable of getting out of bed."
I'd be inclined to think that that benefit claim was instigated by the mother rather than the daughter.

I hope they prosecute the mother for fraud then if nothing else. She has probably ruined her daughters life.

She is being treated for organ failure

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/may/25/georgia-davis-what-support-was-she-getting

By reading that, its sounds like the whole family needed help

I hope she makes a good recovery. What is clear, however, is that she should not return to live with her mum who has failed her badly.

I felt really sad when saw this on news. sky news reported in usual horrid way like was freakshow.

miss her daybreak appearance.

but saw documentry last year think was living showed her leaving wales and going to states and she mad so much progress such a shame she returned to how she was.

surprised its been allowed to get that far.
baffled how she could be her mothers carer
when her mother seems fine.

see similar case in real life where freinds aunt lived with her mother all her life as a carer, had no lives, no freinds, was quite large. when the mother died she really stuggled to cope independatly.

Think more should be done to hel carers especially kids caring for parents.

I am baffled at how she was able to claim carer's allowance when she was unable to leave her bed (for I do not see what she can possibly have been doing to carry out that care). Does no one check up? Or is it just paper based?

Carers is paper based. The dla is a huge long assessment form, but once that us awarded, the carers is straightforward.

Poor girl. The fish and chip thing is heartbreaking.

Apparently she was 63st when she was removed ffrom the house.
She'd been her mother's carer since she was a child.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/big-hearted-georgia-davis-has-been-let-down-847523

Looks like she will be returning home! I read earlier that her mother is moving them all to a nearby bungalow so hospital visits will be easier.

I guess the housing association have put them to the top of housing allocations! How about the mother stays in the house she is in, and Georgia moves to the bungalow..

Well what an utter cunt the person is who wrote that article thumbwitch!

I totally agree with the part of the article that states that Georgia has been let down by evey adult in her life. However, the nasty, offensive, ignorant shite that the author spouted about obese adults prior to that invalidated anything else they had to say.

I get so angry at people like that who are all to happy to be offensive or make fun of overweight people so quickly. I guarantee that if we didn't know Georgia's history the author of that article would have probably been lighting the torches and leading the witch hunt for her. What an utter knob!

I think that it is unfair to lay blame only at the mother's door.

There has been criticism from expert doctors about the lack of professional support.

This isn't just a matter of with holding food, which would be illegal to do it an adult with capacity, anymore than it is a parents fault that an adult child dies from, anerexia, or an addiction of any sort.

This isn't an eating problem, it is a MH problem, probably on both sides.

www.guardian.co.uk ? Life & style ? Health & wellbeing

Oh yeah, I ignored that bit jacqelinehyde - was just interested in the later bits.

This whole thing just makes me so sad, I do hope that she gets the longterm help she needs to lead a healthy life.

But, and I'm only going on what I've read in the various places, it seems she was only bed/roombound for the last 6m - prior to that she was still doing the washing and stuff for her mother and stepfather. So, one assumes she was feeding herself - until the last 6m.
And yes, I'd blame the mother for being a "feeder" too, Maryz - apparently she weighed 9st at age 7.
Unless she actually has Prader Willi syndrome, her mother is largely to blame for her overeating.

MH problem birds?

That link didn't work for me, sorry.