More on how bariatric surgery is often done badly and causes huge complications. Gastric bypass is a surgical answer to a problem with huge psychological components, it needs to be accompanied by huge amounts of counseling, exercise, and dietary changes. Otherwise, you’re treating the fatness, but ignoring the root causes of overeating.
Is the medicine worse than the cure?. Depression can feed on emotional detachment– it prevents you from forming real bonds, it drives people away… and not having those bonds can drive you deeper. So, the medication weakens those links. It’s treating the unhappiness, but it’s not solving any emotional problems that might have gotten the patient into the mess to begin with. Of course if it’s just a chemical issue, then it makes sense. But that sounds like a rare patient who’s just got a chemical imbalance and won’t benefit from counselling.
Secretly Ironic 