So, my new job is moving buses around a depot, I’ve decided to take a break from truck driving since the pay is so shit in my area. All the blokes I work with are ex bus drivers, they’re doing this work because they have a health condition that has invalidated their bus license. It’s rather sad, they can no longer do what they love; most of them have obesity related health issues.
Why isn’t morbid obesity seen as a mental condition like anorexia is? Why do we sit by and not say something (to our loved ones that are obese)? If we know someone has a drinking or drug problem, we tell them, we help them, but severe obesity we allow to happen, sometimes mock the condition, it’s seen as a joke rather than a serious health problem. Surely it is a form of self harm?
Please don’t think I’m fat shaming, I’m not referring to people who are just overweight, I’m on about people who are so large that it disables them, people so big they can barely sit behind a steering wheel, it’s sad.