Although he is now back home after been sectioned under mental health act, IMO he should never have been sectioned in the first place.

Just because someone refuses treatment doesn't mean we should hold them against their will.

Plenty of people who suffer other diseases refuse treatment which could result in their death but we don't section them. :mad:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4285587.stm

You could get a lot of sections out of a 33 stone man.


Sorry... but seriously, it's no different than smoking, is it? An addiction that will kill you... only he has a medical reason.

Poor Fella. Very sad. I wish him all the best!

K x

I saw a programme a few weeks ago that featured this guy amongst others who suffered from Prader-Willi syndrome. It showed some of the other, younger ones going to special schools and one in the US which was almost like a boot camp. It *was* done for their own good as they have zero control over their hunger and food intake.

The guy in the above article had left home to live in a hostel but they weren't properly equipped or trained to know how to help him.

My heart really goes out to him, poor guy. It must be awfull being constantly judged and humiliated becasue of something he has no control over what-so-ever.

It's a dodgy precedent, and typical of 'Big Nanny'.

Whilst I have no problems with people being scetioned for the good of others - if someone was suffering from an emotional illness that was controlled by drugs and who, by refusing to take the meds, endangered others, then I'd have qualms but it would be something I could deal with.

It's just as easy to say that soemone with a smoking habit can't control their intake of cigarettes. The damage they're causing to themselves is more long term but is in principle the same thing. And there are large numbers of people around who certainly eat to excess....why not section them 'for their own good'?

As far as I can see the family of this guy had asked for 6 months grace - surely the Social Services could have offered the assistance of a nurse to check in on the family on a daily basis? I believe that he'd been on TV recently - perhaps the local social services felt stung by someone on their 'patch' showing them up in the media?

Joe

Quote "Highlighting his case on BBC South East Today last month, he said he was often very depressed because people automatically assumed he was fat because he liked eating"

I kinda got that impression myself.

And now he is going to sue (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4287377.stm)

I watched that programme and it did raise a few questions - for child-sufferers they have parents or carers who can help them with day to day living. What about the older sufferers who live alone, perhaps not having family to help care for them?

The symptoms of this illness mean it is imperative that they have some kind of support otherwise things will snowball. Obesity is a killer, it is a disability (can't work) and it generally causes the sufferer to feel an outcast of society.

Perhaps in time some breakthrough will be made to control if not halt this debilitating illness but it certainly makes my problems pale in comparison after learning about what some other people suffer.

And he's going to sue ? FAT chance he's got !

Originally posted by poppins
And he's going to sue ? FAT chance he's got !

Oh dear :shakes: Have a day off :roll:

Course he's going to sue, anything for a bit of money these days.. the pound signs have been flashing..