What are the psychological effects of childhood obesity?
Childhood obesity can do a lot of damage to one's self-esteem and confidence. In this video, Dr. Judi Hollis discusses the long-term psychological effects of childhood obesity.
Transcript
Recovery is about learning to be more of a semi-permeable membrane and staying with that childlike openness to let
the world come to you.
I'm Dr. Judy Hollis. And I'll be answering your question, what are the psychological effects of childhood obesity?
Well, I happen to know that quite well because I was an obese child and suffered as an obese young adult as well.
There's a lot of damage done to a person feeling like a freak in the culture and being objectified.
To suffer taunts and ridicule from other students on the playground develops very low self-esteem, but also
a sense of unworthiness. And that sense of being an object has a lot of consequences in later life.
We become very mistrusting of other people and very hardened in our boundaries.
Recovery is about learning to be more of a semi-permeable membrane and staying with that childlike openness to let the world come to you.
I'm sorry for anyone who's suffering childhood obesity now. And I do hope that we can do some things to change that
around. And a lot of that is involved in treating the entire family system.
child development
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