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October 13th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
October 12, 2015
A team from the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto published a study showing that patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GBS) are at an increased risk of committing suicide than they were pre – surgery.
According to the findings, 1 in 4 patients who had GBS were more likely to attempt to kill themselves than when compared to the general population.
This research shows that “bariatric surgery is more than just an operation — it is time we recognize and treat it is as such.”
For this study, data on 8,814 patients was analyzed to determine the likelihood of self – harm committed by those patients.
For women, 81% surveyed were more likely to attempt suicide; however over all there is a 3.63% increase for every 100 patients who had GBS over the 2.33% ratio they fell into prior to the procedure.
That adds up to 1 in every 63 surveyed had experienced emergencies both before and after.
In order to be at the 95 percentile of being most at risk for self – harm after GBS, the study showed, they were 35 year olds from low – income status living in rural areas.
The most popular ways patients sought to commit suicide were intentional overdose with 73%, and self – hanging with 21%.
Some doctors would like the medical community to view GBS as “a treatment, not a cure.”
Craig Primack, medical doctor with the Scottsdale Weight Loss Center, said: “In my practice, a subset of patients believe that many of their problems stem from their weight: (poor job, still single, bad marriage, no close friends, etc.) and when they get down to a specific weight then everything will be OK.
Primack continued: “When they get to that number (or close to it) and realize that they will not achieve the thing they thought their weight would fix, they stop losing weight to literally stall and not have to face the fact that when they are at their goal they still are single, still have a bad job, etc.”
One of the authors of this study is currently receiving “salary support from BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan.”
Insurance companies traditionally attempt to pass off certain surgeries because of mental illness.
BGS is one of those procedures that requires a mental health exam before the surgery can take place.
Amir Ghaferi, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, wrote in his editorial of the Canadian study that “although the risk of self-harm is still small, there is an important increase in the years before and after surgery” he would be “extremely shocked” if it did not have something to do with the operation.
Ghaferi wrote: “The operation affects so much physiologically but also socially for the patient and I think all of those are going to contribute to the increased risk of self-harm, and potentially suicide.”
Some patients “feel stigmatized for having bariatric surgery and that their peers might think they should have been able to lose weight through diet and exercise” while others explain the “lack of support [from] loved ones who are overweight and may feel threated by their weight loss” contributes to the depression and anxiety they feel.
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