Just wanting to talk

Hi everybody. I just feel the need to talk a little. I went for my second psych eval test. After knowing how the first Dr. interpreted the results made me a wee bit nervous this time. I am not sure that it is ok to talk much about the test. Some of the questions seem so ..... dumb. Some of them just don't apply to me. Can I say that my father left when I was three and that questions concerning my father have no True or False answer.... I didn't even know my father...... I was so confidant and happy the first time and this time I found myself trying to figure out if any of my answers would 'incriminate' me.... now, I know that this is not a matter of 'wrong' or 'right' but ..... well, it is a little bit like.... one of my best friends doesn't let her children have candy... she is so concerned that they will damage their teeth and their health.... and I have another friend who thinks if you control them too much that they will binge the first chance they get... ??? !!! Neither person is 'right' or 'wrong'.... and here I am just sitting in the middle of the road ha ha I can see clearly that it would have been way better for me to have been able to talk about my answers to the first Dr. before he 'passed judgment' (so to speak). sigh. So.... I go back on the Thursday the 23 to talk about how I did.... the goofy thing is, other than being almost 150 pounds overweight, and my feet killing me because of the weight and the fallen arches and heel spurs and faschitus (sp?), and the arthritis in my pelvis, and the chronic neck pain from the car accident which resulted in permanent injury which my weight aggravates and ..(have I forgotten anything????) Well, other that That... this is the best I have ever felt about myself, my life and my future. The goofy thing is if I am this happy now, what in the world kind of happy will I be after WLS???? LOL IF someone feels any better because they had to go through this too... IF anyone feels less alone because they too have had to go through this... then I will be Happy, Thankful and Glad that maybe I have helped. thanks for listening, Barbara

Hi Barbara! I was not impressed with my psych eval either, but I wasn't totally unimpressed either. He didn't know me nor I him, but he did hit a few things right about me. What really matters is that I know myself and I know I am not all that he said he THOUGHT I am, but I am some of what he thought. confusing huh? Take what they say, learn from it if need be and go on. It is only their opinion. To really know someone is more then tests that are ambigious at best and to talk to someone who is nervous at seeing a "shrink" anyway for 45 minutes to an hour. The important thing is feeling better about yourself and being healthier. I must say I do! Not there yet, but better then I have been in years!