You know, I mentioned this whole topic quite awhile ago in this forum, and I gotta say, I didn't get a lot of feedback about it. I'm not sure if people just weren't talking about it, or didn't really have any problems with it themselves, but I've been struggling with it almost the entire time after about a year out of surgery.
My problem was getting addicted to drugs, which I've been in treatment for and am doing ok now.
I guess it's really no surprise since as it's been said, food and eating was my addiction and it was taken away from me (but that's a good thing!!!). Quitting smoking was another habit that I had to quit for the surgery too. So if my personality was such that I was prone to "addictions" to begin with, of course something else had to pop-up.
I'm not saying that it's 100% guaranteed that anyone post-op is going to start abusing something else besides food, it's just something that we should be more prepared to deal with beforehand.
'tis the way it is, and I certainly would rather be 100 lbs thinner and healthier to deal with these things, than as overweight as I was before the surgery, know what I mean?
And technically, "codependency" refers more to a person who
cares for a dependent person... such as a wife who is a codependent to their alcoholic spouse and may be in Alanon or something to that effect...
~T