Psych Eval

My case was under insurance review for about 4 weeks when they requested a lipid/cholesterol blood profile and a psych eval from a psych who has experience in eating disorders.This was 3 weeks ago,,seven weeks total.I had been seeing a psych for meds and a psycologist for counselling for several years due to depression. My regular psych does not believe in WLS so I had to seek someone else. I had few choices here where I live. He said according to my 567 question test and the sexual/physical abuse from my childhood that my profile is one of being a "CONDITIONED FAILURE" at anything I may do or emotionally feel in life.That I would not make a good candidate for surgery because of his findings.He also added that my documented co-morbidies were 80% in my head and "possibly" 20% physical in nature.That I allowed myself to become morbidly-obese because somewhere in my subconscious mind,,I did not want to do something physical in nature.(been morbidly-obese for 5 yrs) When I asked him what he was recommending, He told me of a client, 12 yrs into her therapy who had regained ALL her weight back,,yet this was a psych who did not know ANY of the surgeries I wanted to talk to him about. In the two visits,,there were but two sentences spoken regarding WL and WLS.This was the last info my insurance needed to go back into review..All my surgeon needed next was a pulmonary consult. With this negative profile report being sent to my insurance I guess a denial is inevitable....and perhaps ANY WL programs that insurance may have covered if I had'nt been looking at WLS......ANY ADVICE? PLEASE RESPOND~~~~

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