Overweight!

I worked a 2nd shift recently and a pretty depressed female patient who tends to isolate was forced to come out of her room and she chose to sit in the dining room all by herself. The Dr is well monitored so I sat with her and she said something really illuminating to me. 

"Do they think that my image of myself is as a fat woman?" She said she isolated because of the way people looked at her and she knew that they were judging her. 

When you think about it, no one sees themselves as fat, just as a person. The body is just the vessel. Your mind doesn't grow fat to reflect the body, so what she said makes a lot of sense re how we should interact with overweight people. Interact with their mind and not their body. 

It's none of our business anyway if they are overweight! I have to think of an appropriate response to her, for when I next work there.