Psych Consultation

For me I am kind of impatient. I feel like this is taking F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!! Still when I talk to other post-op WLS friends they say I am moving fast with everything, which is really good I guess since I am on a time table here.So today was my Psych Evaluation with Dr. Williams. It was not at all what I expected. I expected I'd be talking a bit to the doctor about feelings and understanding of the WLS process and how emotional eating is effected etc etc etc.Nope! Instead i was basically talked to. He explained the above mostly in a DVD he made himself. I spent the first 10 minutes with him going over the histroy of WLS and why psych evals were needed. Then he explained the process of the "tests" I'd be taking after I watched his dvd. Asked if I had any questions and escorted me into another room for the DVD portion.

So I sat at a desk and watched a DVD about WLS. Well it talked mostly about the RNY side effects and how it can change a person psychologically and how friends and family may change, etc etc etc. Basically everything I already knew. I was bored for most of it and cleaned the desk I was at from some nasty sticky stuff that was stuck to it, all the while listening AND taking notes. I wasn't just in la la land. There was a computer there and got sick of the screen saver staying on forever when I accidentally bumped the mouse so I changed the settings on that. Come to think of it I probably could have played solitaire, LOL.

So after the 45 min video, it was on to the computerized test. I was repeatedly told that if I "failed" this test then I'd have to take another one. But it wouldn't be that I "failed" but that the first test just put up red flags. The results would be instant and reporting of the Eval would be complete and sent to Hurley Bariatric by 5pm that same night. So NO PRESSURE right?! LOL

Thankfully I "passed" and was given the green light. There was very LITTLE discussion on my history of emotional eating as I had to interrupt him to tell him a couple things, which he didn't seem TOO interested in. In fact he basically gave me a card of someone else if I needed to talk to someone. He suggested I keep a journal of my emotions to figure out what I was feeling why I was over eating, blah blah blah. I had already started a journal long before I met him and I have already figured out where things started and how it morphed. I tried discussing it with him, but again I was cut off and he didn't seem too interested, and referred me to the card for additional help.

Oh well. I guess at least I "passed" the Psych Eval. I'm not crazy, and I am on to the next step.