So, on Valentine's Day I will have my psychological evaluation. Let me start by saying I am very sane and I am getting this surgery for all the right reasons. My questions for those of you who have had your psychological evaluations are, what kind of questions do they ask? Is there something's I should or shouldn't say? Do I have to lay on a couch?(Lol) What's the deal? Never needed to have this type of evaluation so I'm really curious to find out what I will be facing.......(-; HELP

My psych eval was no big deal really just a lot of questions to make sure you don't have some deep rooted emotional suicidal issues. I mean we all have an emotional connection to food in some way or we wouldn't be here. There was a short interview and a questionnaire of 175 questions grading 1-5 (1 being most likely 5 least likely). They did throw in some goofy questions I guess to be sure you are actually reading the test. I passed with flying colors and my hubby calls me a psycho on a daily basis You should do fine. Don't sweat it!!

Mine was part test, part talk. They just want to be sure you don't this is a cure or quick easy fix for being overweight. I almost laughed out loud when mine asked me about my childhood - so cliche! Oh, I sat on a couch. Lol

Mine was 560 questions all true or false took almost 2 hrs. It was old school where you fill in the circle with number 2 pencil. Then I had a 1 hr session to go over it, it was over rated I passed glad that parts done!

mine was all talk and took about 45 min, he was very nice, mostly they need to make sure you dont have bulimia and dont have body dismorfic dissorder....yes i probably spelled that wrong. it is when you think you look fat but artnot. a lot of anorexics have BDD. best wishes

It was no big deal we even joked around a little I asked her if it was normal to want to kill some people she said yes as long ad I don't act on those feelings lol she was a nice lady and she runs out support group

My evaluation was about 2 hrs. , they asked all kinds of questions about what your expectations of the surgery is. They also wanted to see that I knew the surgery was a tool and that I had to work with the surgery to lose weight and that the surgery was not a magic tool to lose weight, but that I had to work with it. They also wanted to know that it was me who wanted the surgery and that there was no husband/boyfriend wanting me to get the surgery and that it was me and only me who wanted the surgery. She expained that she had quite a few people come in that their spouses wanted them to have surgery and one mother and son where the mother called the son fat and lazy and wanted him to have the surgery, he was like 16. She said she always declines people that are there from someone else and not them selves.

I work in psych and have worked with preoperative and postoperative WLS patients, just by coincidence, not specialty. I have only seen one person denied because of the psych Eval due to extensive psych history of self injury and severe personality disorder. That said, mine consisted of just a therapy session with lots of questions regarding history, no tests were administered.

Some psychologists do testing to rule out personality disorders that might hinder a person's recovery or their ability to cope.

Your title to the thread reminds me of on the tv show "BIG BANG THEORY" when they accuse Sheldon of being crazy and he says "no I am not, my mom had me tested"

you will do fine.