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debby8892    14

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Hi everyone,

I'm going to see a Psychologist this Thursday to fulfill one of my pre-op requirements. I'm very curious as to what they will ask me. What was your experience with this?

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KristenLe    5,980

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They will have you complete several questionnaires regarding you eating habits, mental health history, substance abuse history. They will then meet with you to review all of that and particularly your expectations with WLS, your knowledge about the surgery (before, during and after), coping with stress, any trauma in the past, etc. It's a good time to ask questions and get some advice. I have an issue with emotional eating and am getting some extra help with that before surgery.

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Oh and alot about your previous weight loss attempts, when you became overweight, etc.

Thanks so much for this. Did you have to see the Psychologist more then one time? Or is everything done within one meeting?

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Only once to a Psychiatrist for eval but I'm going to a psychologist to help with my emotional eating. I have to go thru 6 months of supervised weight loss for my insurance so I figured I'd get all the tools I can during that time.

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debby8892    14

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Only once to a Psychiatrist for eval but I'm going to a psychologist to help with my emotional eating. I have to go thru 6 months of supervised weight loss for my insurance so I figured I'd get all the tools I can during that time.

O ok, make sense. I have to go through 6 months of supervised weightloss as well. Im down 2 months, 4 more to go. Can't wait. I'm projected to have my surgery at the end of September.

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They will have you complete several questionnaires regarding you eating habits, mental health history, substance abuse history. They will then meet with you to review all of that and particularly your expectations with WLS, your knowledge about the surgery (before, during and after), coping with stress, any trauma in the past, etc. It's a good time to ask questions and get some advice. I have an issue with emotional eating and am getting some extra help with that before surgery.

this was my similar experience. I saw once for my initial eval and will see again before my surgery on june 22nd.

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debby8892    14

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They will have you complete several questionnaires regarding you eating habits, mental health history, substance abuse history. They will then meet with you to review all of that and particularly your expectations with WLS, your knowledge about the surgery (before, during and after), coping with stress, any trauma in the past, etc. It's a good time to ask questions and get some advice. I have an issue with emotional eating and am getting some extra help with that before surgery.

this was my similar experience. I saw once for my initial eval and will see again before my surgery on june 22nd.
Hi! Were they able to give you your results right away or did you have to wait?

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debby8892    14

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They will have you complete several questionnaires regarding you eating habits, mental health history, substance abuse history. They will then meet with you to review all of that and particularly your expectations with WLS, your knowledge about the surgery (before, during and after), coping with stress, any trauma in the past, etc. It's a good time to ask questions and get some advice. I have an issue with emotional eating and am getting some extra help with that before surgery.

this was my similar experience. I saw once for my initial eval and will see again before my surgery on june 22nd.
Hey! Were you able to get your results right away or did you have to wait?

They will have you complete several questionnaires regarding you eating habits, mental health history, substance abuse history. They will then meet with you to review all of that and particularly your expectations with WLS, your knowledge about the surgery (before, during and after), coping with stress, any trauma in the past, etc. It's a good time to ask questions and get some advice. I have an issue with emotional eating and am getting some extra help with that before surgery.

this was my similar experience. I saw once for my initial eval and will see again before my surgery on june 22nd.
Hi! Were they able to give you your results right away or did you have to wait?

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pewpewpewpew    83

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i don't think my experience was too typical.

since i already had a good history of seeing a therapist and psychiatrist-i didn't have any issues. i met with a psychiatrist, nutritionist and medical doctor all in one day and at the end the medical doctor reviewed all the notes and said i was a good candidate for surgery and had me set up an appt with my surgeon.

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pewpewpewpew    83

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@@pewpewpewpew We are the same size - I look forward to hearing about your success - your surgery is a few months before mine!

oh nice! i'll be sure to update as things get moving :)

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KristenLe    5,980

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@@debby8892 I think they will tell you the "results" at the end of your evaluation. I had actually asked her for some suggestions for emotional eating and she replied by saying that she thought that would be the only concern she had as well (I'm assuming if I didn't ask - she would have told me at that time). If they don't - I wouldn't hesitate to ask them.

I had never had a psych eval or counseling before so I wasn't sure what to expect. My first counseling appointment for emotional eating is this Thursday. I'm also hoping for a Sept surgery date.

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@@debby8892 I think they will tell you the "results" at the end of your evaluation. I had actually asked her for some suggestions for emotional eating and she replied by saying that she thought that would be the only concern she had as well (I'm assuming if I didn't ask - she would have told me at that time). If they don't - I wouldn't hesitate to ask them.

I had never had a psych eval or counseling before so I wasn't sure what to expect. My first counseling appointment for emotional eating is this Thursday. I'm also hoping for a Sept surgery date.

Good luck to you @@KristenLe! I'm looking forward in following your journey.

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I wanted to chime in. I will also most likely have a September date as well! Even though I'll finish in August I'll have stuff to do before I get a date like insurance approval. I go to my Psych eval May 10th.

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