incidence of post-WLS depression and suicide? (cross-posted)

July 30, 2003

Hi,

This is excerpted from a member of one of the WLS support lists. He

recently came close to succeeding at suicide; his hand was shaking

too much, and the bullet only grazed his temple:

At 7:01 AM -0700 7/30/03, <name> wrote:

>I might also add that the Psychiatrists at he Hospital

>I worked with .. four to be exact all told me that

>research is being done nationally on the strange

>increase of incidence of depression and suicide in

>those who have had WLS.. and are near or at a year out

>and have lost at least a hundred lbs. so,.. who knows

>what will happen. All I know is head of the program

>told me he's sending in my information to the National

>Institutes of Health.

I have not heard any other cries for help (the person quoted above

gave evidence of a planned suicide, and we corresponded quite a bit

about it after we detected his distress, and we provided all the

support that we could provide, but we had no way of locating him and

alerting the local authorities to head off his attempted suicide,

because he was too clever at concealing his moves). BUT, IF ANYBODY

WHO READS THIS IS IN SUCH DISTRESS, PLEASE CALL AND GO SEE LOCAL

MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES ASAP. Also, do not hide your despair from

the rest of us. We are here to give you support in your time of

distress.

In the case of the member above, it turns out that his meds were

actually working against him, and now that his meds have been

replaced with others and/or readjusted, he is seeing the world in a

much rosier light.

--Steve

July 30, 2003

Due to my personal research due to depression I would not be

surprised if some of this is caused by nutritional deficiencies. I

have read 2 books that addressed this subject. The Diet Cure and

Depression Free Naturally. Since many of us have malabsorptive

surgeries this coud definately cause the problem.

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