Depressed Bariatric Patient Doesn't Want to Work I overheard from some docs and nurses saying how they had to handle a bariatric patient who complains about life and how his "depression" is making him want to eat because food comforts him and keeps him "safe". He said that he's worried that if he loses weight, he will be forced to work and he thinks it will worsen his "anxiety and depression". One doctor had enough and confronted him by telling him as is; his refusal to his treatment plan is causing a burden to the hospital staff and resources and that if he refuses to follow his treatment plans, he will be discharged. Thank goodness that doctors are able to tell it like it is! In healthcare, fee-fees don't matter. His mother was enabling him by feeding him food and because of this dynamic, prior to the discharge, the doctor referred him and his mother to psychotherapy. I don't get to hear a lot of stories in my hospital involving bariatric patients so I'm assuming we don't get many but when we do, words about them spread among the staff members. Every two weeks though, I do see a FUPA beast on their wheelchair with their FUPA hanging over and most of the time, they are on oxygen. Usually of course, they are discharged from the facility when I see them.