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Psychological Assessment Is Key To Improving Surgical Success Rates

By Expert Author: Don Saunders
View Summary | Submitted: 2007-12-09 | Word Count: 522 words | Views: 121 view(s)
Don Saunders
For a growing number of very obese people gastric bypass surgery is the answer to shedding excess pounds when exercise and diet have not been successful, though it is definitely not an easy course and leads to a wide variety of outcomes in different patients.

There are a number of different surgical weight loss procedures offered nowadays from a full gastric bypass which involves the decrease of the size of the stomach and the bypassing of a section of the intestine to both restrict the amount of food eaten and the absorption of calories from that food to lap banding which merely decreases the size of the stomach to once more restrict the amount of food that can be eaten.

Whatever form of surgery is done the fundamental principle is to force the body to burn off a greater number of calories than can be absorbed and so reduce weight by using up the body's fat reserves.

The true problem with gastric bypass surgery however does not lie in the actual surgery itself but reveals itself in the weeks following surgery when people find that their lifestyle has to change radically and that they need to adjust to a whole new eating regime. For nearly all patients this is difficult but for a few it can lead to serious problems that are simply too much for them to cope with.

There are a variety of reasons for obesity but a couple of common problems serve to illustrate this point.

The first is the problem of those people whose obesity has been caused, or aggravated, by emotional eating. In this case people turn to eating whenever they are stressed or whenever their emotions are low. Emotional or comfort eating is a very strong habit that is difficult to break and the psychological pressures that often follow gastric bypass surgery are just the sort of pressures that will spark the need for emotional eating in individuals who suffer from this problem.

The second is the problem of those people who are prone to binge-eating and the uncontrollable guilt, disgust and depression that usually follow binge-eating episodes. It is very easy to imagine the great difficulty that such people will experience in attempting to deal with the significant lifestyle changes following obesity surgery.

Taking all of these and other factors into account it is possibly not surprising to discover that about 20% of those being considered for obesity surgery are not suitable, or perhaps more accurately not ready, for surgery which is when psychological obesity treatments come into play.

Considerable attention is given to the requirement for people to meet specific physical requirements for surgery (in terms of things like their body mass index and the presence of other medical problems which are associated with the fact that they are considerably overweight) but all too often only lip service is paid to very real psychological problems that are associated with surgery. If surgery is to have the very best possible chance of success then it is extremely important to look carefully at the psychological needs of people and then provide them with the necessary pre-surgical assessment, counseling and, most important of all, treatment.
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