What psychological problem causes....

my brother to be obsessed with this show?:



He eats while he's watching it.

Why would anyone want to watch this? In some episodes they show the 600lb subjects naked on the toilet.

 

Having had to deal with a patient who weighed 1064 lbs, I can assure you that it is far from my idea of entertainment.

 

You're a doctor with those abs? You shouldn't be rubbing it in to your morbidly obese patients.

 

I trained as a doctor 48 years ago, but went on to become a theater design engineer.
During a few periods when the recession brought architectural work in the theater to a standstill, I went back to cardiac surgery and driving a London ambulance for a few years.
The patient that I mentioned, required a special ambulance brought down from Manchester to transport him to hospital, along with 8 paramedics to move him. During the 15 minute journey, a cardiac consultant constantly monitored his heart, via ultrasound, since if he was lowered flat below 15 degrees, the mass of his chest would simply crush his heart sack, putting him into immediate cardiac arrest.
Situations such as this are way beyond television shows made to entertain the public.

 

People will watch reality shows about Anything.. This show,like most reality shows, seem really boring and trashy.
Does he watch it for entertainment, or does he actually feel empathy for them..

 

Maybe morbid obesity causes morbid curiosity.

 

Well it is cheaper than paying $60.00 per ticket to board a ship in Boston Harbor to take a Whale Watch Tour...

....and 1/3 of the time you don't even encounter any whales

 

You know what reality show I've been watching lately? Battle Bots. Now I used to think this robot wars shit was the stupidest ever but I dunno I'm hooked atm lol. I think it's because there is a commentator who makes me laugh he gets so into it and makes it really fun and all of a sudden I'm shouting at the TV lol.

I don't watch anything else though. Once every 5 months a new show might catch my eye. Before it was Hells Kitchen, then Wicked Tuna. But none this housewife shit. That shit'll rot your brain I tell you hwat. I swear I lose braincells watching the bachelor and dating in the dark cap. Lucky I don't watch it much at all.

But battle bots. Season 2 that's where I'm at. It's the wickedest.

 

It's a side effect of Ambien.

 

Along with racist tweets

 

People can be fat for any number of reasons, including a bad thyroid gland, but that's not to say a lot of it isn't cultural. How many 600lb Tibetans or Chinese do you think there are in the world? Cultures like the Japanese have far fewer problems with obesity, but have other issues such as high suicide rates or whatever.

 

I admit to watching this, plus shows about hoarders and addicts. I have a fascination with how people can be consciously self-destructive, partly because of my own self-destructive behaviors I think. I don't watch to laugh or make fun; some pretty disturbing stuff is shown.

 

it is in the nature of assumptions about psrinquology to be mistaken.

that markets exist for a great many things, is also a mystery.