I'm sorry, but whats the MMPI?

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is one of the most frequently used personality tests in mental health. The test is used by trained professionals to assist in identifying personality structure and psychopathology.

Bariatric surgeons require this in order to provide the surgery. It's a very stupdlooking test/questionaire. You are asked the same sets of questions several times but in different ways.

I wanted to make myself look like I was really REALLY out of control so they'd decide I really needed that surgery. I am very fat (my face on pic- different body)- eat wrong and late at night and alot but not all day and night long. However- I made it end up looking like I was a binge eater and so they cannot do the surgery until I get myself straightened out. They are concerned with binge eating that they will do the surgery to reduce my stomache and I will binge, rip open my stomache and die.

I thought about that and isn't that pretty much alot overweight peoples issue?

I just really want this surgery and I can re-take the test in about 4-6 more weeks I think and don't want to screw it up again.

I am too young to have arthritis so bad in my back and knees. I walk like I am 80 much of the time and was told I could be immensely better after losing at least 80 to 100 lbs.

I am having bypass surgery in a few weeks. different state, but just the same, I had to pass a phych exam as well. The first thing I will tell you is if you feel like you need to lie about this, you definately don't qualify for surgery, because you will blow it up in the end...Surgery is not a quick fix solution to end obesity. It is a tool. It is a LIFETIME commitement. Never again can you eat more than about a cup and a half of food at one time. there is never again things like soda, birthday cake, candy or chips, ice cream, plates of pasta and garlic bread and fried chicken. You must drink at least, AT LEAST 64 ounces, thats half a gallon of water a day. And you must exercise, everyday day you must exercise.
I have been working a year to get here, and it's been the hardest road of my life. I've cried, I have struggled with hunger at times, I have given up everything i thought I couldn't live without. I drink onlt water and skim milk. Thats it....No tea, no diet soda, no juice,(it's full of sugar), , I have a protein shake in the morning, a protein bar in the afternoon, and a small highprotein meal in the early evening, and thats it. that means 4 ounces of either chicken breast, turkey or fish, one nonstarchy veggie, and either 4 ounces of yogurt(nonfat) or one skim milk string cheese, or sugar free jello. there are no potatoes, no corn, no rice. these are starch. there is no bread, except maybe once a week, and it is brown. 100% whole wheat. I eat eggs, scrambled, but with no butter or grease in the pan, just non stick spray.
It's a strict diet. But I've dropped 62 pounds since October23,2009. Maybe a little more, headed out to doctor in about an hour.
Point is, surgery is serious business, and if you can't be honest with a piece of paper, which is being honest with yourself, honey you don't need surgery...you would just be setting yourself up for disaster. My aunt Judy did this...literally blew her stomach up...now we visit her in the grave....

I am very serious about this.. none of what I say here is b.s. not even about my aunt Judy... it's all true.
Surgery is an unbelievably big step, and they want to make sure you understand what it involves. alot of people think it's a quick way to get skinny.. they don't understand the work involved. you also realize the maintenance...you will have to take supplements the rest of your life. and follow a special diet, the rest of your life. it will not be as strict as the first three or four months, but you can NEVER EVER EVER EAT LIKE YOU DO NOW....NOT EVER!!!!