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Cody Dawg · Feb 22, 2005, 08:18 AM

Read here: Locked up for compulsive eating.

???

Maybe it's for his own good?

Amorya · Feb 22, 2005, 08:43 AM

Great Sun reporting as usual. A quick search on Prader-Willi Syndrome:

Prader�Willi syndrome (PWS), a genetic form of mental retardation, involves a myriad of physical and behavioral problems. Poor social adjustment has been reported, but the origin of this difficulty is unknown. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)

Compulsive behavior in Prader-Willi syndrome is well-documented, though the neurochemical basis of these behaviors remains unknown. (American Journal on Mental Retardation)

Psychotic and affective disorders reportedly affect approximately 10% of the adult population of persons with Prader-Willi syndrome. Psychiatric disturbances often are expressed as an episodic worsening of compulsivity, irritability, and noncompliance. Severe symptoms may include hallucinations, anti-social behavior, withdrawal, and food refusal. [OK, he doesn't have the last one then! -A] (Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities)

A total of fifty-eight 3- to 29-year-old subjects with PWS were studied using a standardized parent report of behavioural and emotional disturbances. There was an increase of behavioural and emotional disturbances for the adolescent and young adult age range, whereas gender and intelligence were not significant. Increasing body mass index (BMI) was also associated with more behavioural and emotional disturbances (Journal of Intellectual Disability Research)

It appears to be a developmental disorder (a few abstracts seemed to compare it to Down's Syndrome), and that is what he was locked up for - he had a mental illness (no matter how many times he denied it!) that resulted in him causing damage to himself.

I'm sick of people ranting about the mental health services in cases like this... he can't stop eating, and (if the diagnosis is correct) it's caused by a known disorder. So if he's refusing treatment and blatantly hurting himself, then the doctors have to choose to let him continue or to make him get treatment. It's not a "whose life shall we screw up today?" choice like the Sun makes out.

Amorya

Cody Dawg · Feb 22, 2005, 09:09 AM

That's the take I had, also. I think it's for his own good, also.

I think more people should be sent off for forced help, actually; in this country they eat and eat and eat and then they develop real or imagined health problems and will not or cannot work and then we are paying them welfare to sit at home and eat more.

malvolio · Feb 22, 2005, 11:00 AM

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
in this country they eat and eat and eat and then they develop real or imagined health problems and will not or cannot work and then we are paying them welfare to sit at home and eat more.

But that's the capitalist dream - endless growth.

wdlove · Feb 22, 2005, 11:07 AM

This is the first time hearing about Prader-Willi Syndrome. So they do have something to treat.

effgee · Feb 22, 2005, 11:18 AM

Government intervening in someone's private life ... sounds vaguely familiar ...

TailsToo · Feb 22, 2005, 07:05 PM

Sounds like what's happening to me with Starbucks. I'm finding that I want to go in the afternoons now too. Must be crack in there or something.

KeriVit · Feb 22, 2005, 07:42 PM

It's too bad. He looks like a perfect candidate for stapling... not that I totally agree with that. But he's so freakin young! and he's lost control already. Yeah, he was making baby-steps at home, but not enough. If he was poking holes in his skin so he could bleed to death, they woulda picked him up. Why not eating himself to death...?

Mafia · Feb 22, 2005, 08:48 PM

it is for his own good, but it still is taking away his rights. lol who wants to be alive in a mental hospital anyways.

demograph68 · Feb 22, 2005, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by Mafia:
it is for his own good, but it still is taking away his rights. lol who wants to be alive in a mental hospital anyways.

I went to one and I hated it. I was 16 at the time. I lied on my evaluation just to get out.

KeriVit · Feb 22, 2005, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by demograph68:
I went to one and I hated it. I was 16 at the time. I lied on my evaluation just to get out.

demo- you're so deep.

demograph68 · Feb 22, 2005, 08:58 PM

Originally posted by KeriVit:
demo- you're so deep.

Not really.

KeriVit · Feb 22, 2005, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by demograph68:
Not really.

sure you are. not a bad thing. always something new that's all.

Person Man · Feb 22, 2005, 09:19 PM

Originally posted by wdlove:
This is the first time hearing about Prader-Willi Syndrome. So they do have something to treat.

Not every overeater has Prader-Willi Syndrome. It is a FAIRLY RARE illness.

Mr Kino · Feb 23, 2005, 12:18 AM

Originally posted by TailsToo:
Sounds like what's happening to me with Starbucks. I'm finding that I want to go in the afternoons now too. Must be crack in there or something.

omg i was starting to have the same problem. till i realized that i own a coffee maker and a thermos. now i just make my own darn coffee and screw starbucks.

demograph68 · Feb 23, 2005, 12:24 AM

Originally posted by Mr Kino:
omg i was starting to have the same problem. till i realized that i own a coffee maker and a thermos. now i just make my own darn coffee and screw starbucks.

Rock on!

Amorya · Feb 23, 2005, 05:59 AM

Originally posted by Mafia:
it is for his own good, but it still is taking away his rights. lol who wants to be alive in a mental hospital anyways.

It's very rare that you'd have to stay there forever. You endure the hospital, then they release you when you've made progress and just check up on you every so often instead.

Amorya

demograph68 · Feb 23, 2005, 06:02 AM

Worst case scenario: Lobotomy