Volume : 7, Issue : 10, October - 2018

SYMPTOM TRANSFORMATION AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY INTERVENTION A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN BOTH LEBANESE OBESE MEN AND WOMEN

Elise Bitar, Jeannette Abou Nasr Daccache

Abstract :

<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The number of candidates for the bariatric surgery is increasing massively in Lebanon with little research on post- operative psychological effects of this surgery on obese individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Body" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>For psychology, eating beyond the physiological need is a symptom and this study aims to observe the fate of this eating symptom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Body" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The quest is conducted with three Lebanese men and women through a clinical interview and a projective test,the TAT. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Body" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The results show that all the candidates experienced excessive post-operative emotional fragility. The symptom persisted in two cases, displaced to another symptom in other cases and for the rest, they suffered either from depression or decompensation or a feeling of persecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>