I was reading the post about flunking the shrink eval, and I was wondering if everyone told the WHOLE story. I don't plan to, I"ve been through a world of s*** but I don't think he needs to know that. I'm sticking to fat topics only! I know what makes me fat, I eat too much and I"m NEVER full! So do you tell the whole truth during your eval and risk flunking?

mine just wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing and asking for. she had the band herself

hess

My psych eval was done by a friend of my surgeons. Which I think helped tremendously. I answered his questions truthfully, but did not offer more information than he requested. God only knows I could be a mental head case with my Childhood and early adulthood. But I have never thought of it that way. psychs are trained to percieve everything the look in your eyes when you talk, your mannerisms, to check if you have nervous characteristics, watches your body language possibly to check if your lying or telling the whole truth. They pay close attention to your confidence levels when you answer questions. I believe that that is probably 60% if not more important to "pass" the whole psych eval. I am either a really good liar (in body language) or I really believed the answers I gave. Either way, he thought I was healthy enough to have the surgery and succeed.

~J

Hi, I went and it was just a chat. Mostly he wanted to know if you were stable enough to go through the procedure.

He wanted to know if you were educated about it, asked if I had ever thought about suicide? If I was ever abused as a child or adult. That was the basic questions, then he brought up on the computer the model of band and asked if I investigated before coming to him . I said yes and it was over. He shook my hand, said good bye .