Posted by BeardedLady on November 27, 2002, at 12:58:35
In reply to Bipolar and Obesity, posted by IsoM on November 27, 2002, at 12:15:58
Iso:
Your post made me realize how many bipolar friends and family members I have. So here's the rundown on their weight!
I used to have a very good friend who is bipolar, and she is thin as a rail. (Her illness is why we are no longer friends, but it's a long story.) I saw her the other day and thought she was anorexic.
Another very skinny friend was bipolar. I was the lucky recipient of two of her suicide notes--even wrote a song about her for my band. She had kids at a young age, and we lost touch.
I have a close cousin with bipolar (her father had it too, and he was extremely large). (She has tried to off herself seven times, and she has had two sessions of shock therapy.) She is obese, but she is on about twelve different medications for a host of problems, like asthma. She's severly overweight and very unhealthy, though she's only in her late forties, I think. She has two adult children, one of whom is "normal" and obese, the other of whom is bipolar and thin.
I guess, as in all walks of life and all disorders, there are thin people and fat people. (Of course, the type II diabetes folks are usually obese because obesity causes that type of diabetes.)
So, again, who knows?
beardy
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