Maggie May

Maggie May

Obesity and Maggie May
Nowadays, our culture accepts the bad and slanders the good. People constantly get criticized for doing the right thing, yet other people make a poor choice and they receive applause. However, when a child is obese, like my client Maggie May, they tend to do both- accept her and insult her. In each and every session, Maggie displayed symptoms of Sedentary Behavior. She admitted that she has horrible interpersonal skills and feelings of worthlessness. She exemplified much more than these two symptoms, therefore I chose to approach her by using the Dietary Restraint Theory and the Emotional Eating Theory (as well as others). Obesity is becoming more and more popular in our culture, but it seems to me that it is much more than a bad eating habit or lack of exercise, but is rooted and triggered in an emotional state of mind AND a distorted spiritual perspective, both of which are very large components of security and identity. Clients like Maggie tend to lose hope. Sometimes, they don’t even know how to gain the strength to smile because they’ve been told not too for so long.
This leads to depression. Depression is an emotion and now has become another disorder our society has created. It is one that haunts a lot of obese people and one that is found in a lot of emotionally disturbed people as well. Paul says in Romans 14:17 that the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Therefor we know that those three characteristics that we posses and have access too are only gifts (through the Holy Spirit) than can be received and not earned. If one does not carry those three characteristics with them on earth, than feelings and emotions of Satan will start to creep in and invade ones thoughts, mind, heart, soul and actions. In a study done at the NIH, they made an observation that obesity and depression were close friends. In fact they stated that the two were possibly linked to...

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