One may not be sure if depression is linked to obesity, but obesity may prevent one form being able to commit suicide! Yes, the obesity epidemic seems to have reached a new level of crisis, especially for people bored with life and who take suicide as the last resort.
Don’t know if we can out rightly call it a ‘crisis’ or a ‘blessing,’ it is sure to lead an obese and depressed child to mental health deterioration, but prevent him from committing suicide.
But, overall, this new study, warns America’s plunge into a new level of obesity epidemic crisis.
The author of the report, Dr. Marjorie Reese, director of UCLA’s Obesity Pathology Clinic said,
We’ve known for some time that obesity can cause heart disease, diabetes, strokes, and other potentially life-threatening illnesses. But the fact that obesity impedes suicide is truly troubling. It appears that the more reason people have to die, the less capable they are of doing so. They are literally trapped in their grotesque, blubbery bodies.
With one-third of Americans, classified as obese, suicide is made a less viable option for these people. Up from 18 percent in 1996, according to the report, now, 29 percent are estimated to be too heavy, immobile, or both making it difficult for them to attempt for suicide.
A 70 page-full of report focuses on suicide methods, which are found to be insurmountable challenges for the corpulent people, which otherwise, the normal people can take for granted.
It seems to be wiser for an obese person to fight obesity-related depression at the roots by resorting to slimming options, than to revolt against their “over-weight” lives.
