Perhaps he should have shopped at Freedom furniture?

[The Hen]

Obese man found fused to chair

An obese US man had to be cut from a chair he had been sitting in for two years after his body became fused to it, local media reported.

Police told WTRF news that the Ohio man's skin had become fused to the seat of the chair, which was covered in urine, faeces and maggots.

The man's girlfriend brought him food for two years as he sat in his own waste in the filthy apartment they shared with another man, police said.

They called for help on Sunday morning when he was unresponsive and had to cut a hole in the house to get him out of the building so they could get him to the hospital.

The smell was unbearable and one officer told the station that he threw away his uniform after it was sullied while cutting the man out of the chair. The man was taken to the hospital for treatment.

"The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that," said Jim Chase, a city code enforcer in Bellaire, Ohio.

"I instructed the landlord this morning and the two people, the tenants at the house, they had to get it cleaned, there's no way they can live in something like that, and so they are working on it," he told WTRF on Monday.

[Gob]

Pretty sad tale... but who's to blame?

Everyone is asking, "how could this happen?"

A man whose skin had fused to his chair, with bedsores, maggots and excrement everywhere. The description from the first responders was horrifying.

Now the 43-year-old Bellaire man has died according to our radio news partner WKKX.

Who is in charge of a case like this? First of all, is it a legal issue? A Belmont County legal authority says it appears that it is not.

The man, from all official accounts, was not being held against his will, was not a captive, not forced to live confined to his chair, with no access to hygiene.

WTRF 7 News is told by several sources that the man insisted on living his life in his chair, insisted that his girlfriend bring him food and soft drinks.

Several people have suggested it's a case for Adult Protective Services. However, their jurisdiction is reportedly limited to the elderly. Clients must be in their 60s or older. A 43 year old does not qualify.

Is it a case for Children's Services? So often, cases involving filthy houses fall under their jurisdiction. But in this case, officials say, no children were involved.

And there's the Health Department---They do have an environmental health section, but it deals more with things like lead paint on walls that could affect children.

No one wants to address this issue on camera. But off-camera, this is what they are saying.

"This is a living condition issue, that is unfortunately a matter of personal choice. It didn't affect a child, it didn't affect a senior citizen. It's a gray area. The kind of case that falls between the cracks."

And finally there's the landlord---She says she's been attacked online and on the airwaves and she's tired of it.

She says, "you rent to adult and you expect them to know how to live. He was always sitting underneath a blanket. I had no idea the extent of it."

She says there are now seven people cleaning the house.




http://wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=96814

[Sean]

It must have been a pretty fucking comfy chair!

...at least to start with...

[The Hen]

His partner is to blame for not getting assistance for him when he first started not moving from his chair.

She was the one who was in charge of his diet. She was the one that was allowing him to crap where he sat.

If you ever became so big that you were not leaving a chair in order to have a bowel movement you can bet you bibby that I would be calling in experts to ensure you didnt stay that way for too long.

Mind you, I wouldn't have been bringing you calorie laden meals. He'll, I probably would start cooking you meat and withdrawing cheese from your diet so you HAD to move your big fat arse.

[rubato]

Who is responsible?

1. The man himself.

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2. Anyone else living with him. But how could they put up with the horrible smell?

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[Scooter]

I'm sorry, but how could this man not have been suffering from some kind of mental illness? You see someone descending into a spiral where they won't even get up out of their chair to piss and crap, and YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT????? Was every person around him a fucking subdefective???

"Personal choice" my ass. Fucking bunch of heartless, soulless, scum sucking bastards is what they are.

[Sue U]

Was every person around him a fucking subdefective???

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say duh. This case screams "serious mental illness" all around.

[The Hen]

Who is responsible?

1. The man himself

yrs,
rubato

Obviously the man himself.

However, he had his chance to do something about himself many bowel movements prior to not being able to move from the spot he sat. When you get to that stage he CANNOT be considered as a responsible adult and you have to look at who was allowing him to remain in that condition.

[Gob]

IWas every person around him a fucking subdefective???

"Personal choice" my ass. Fucking bunch of heartless, soulless, scum sucking bastards is what they are.

This perchannce?

Folie à deux (English pronunciation: /fɒˈli ə ˈduː/, from the French for "a madness shared by two") (or shared psychosis) is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name. The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th century French psychiatry.



Various sub-classifications of folie à deux have been proposed to describe how the delusional belief comes to be held by more than one person.

Folie imposée is where a dominant person (known as the 'primary', 'inducer' or 'principal') initially forms a delusional belief during a psychotic episode and imposes it on another person or persons (known as the 'secondary', 'acceptor' or 'associate') with the assumption that the secondary person might not have become deluded if left to his or her own devices. If the parties are admitted to hospital separately, then the delusions in the person with the induced beliefs usually resolve without the need of medication.
Folie simultanée describes either the situation where two people considered to suffer independently from psychosis influence the content of each other's delusions so they become identical or strikingly similar, or one in which two people "morbidly predisposed" to delusional psychosis mutually trigger symptoms in each other

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux

[Sean]

IIRC the last time you posted about 'Folie à deux' it at least involved Swedish twins...

[Gob]

Ursula and Sabina, indeed.

Or was it Gwen and Edi?

[Sean]

Swedish... not Siamese.

[loCAtek]

Girlfriend? Did they ...NO! I don't wanna know!!!

[BoSoxGal]

Wish I hadn't checked this thread while eating lunch.

A great movie that embodies 'Folie a deux' = Bug, with Ashley Judd.

[The Hen]

He's died now.

[dales]

Yes, he has.

What a sh!tty way to go.

[Gob]

Ok, he was fused to a sofa, this woman eats them...

A mother-of-five has been diagnosed with a rare disorder called Pica after seeking medical help for her addiction... to eating sofas.

Adele Edwards, of Bradenton, Florida, has been eating the foam inside couch cushions for 21 years.

She sought help when the cravings started getting out of control.

Miss Edwards, 31, said: 'In the last year I’ve eaten seven sofas.



'I unzip the cushions and snack on the foam inside. And once I start I just can’t stop.

'But now doctors have told me that if I carry on, my addiction will kill me.'

Pica is a disorder found most commonly in toddlers and pregnant women who lack certain nutrients, causing them to crave non-nutritive substances like chalk, coins, batteries and even dirt.

Sometimes it’s caused by stress, and Adele admits her first time happened during a very emotional period in her life, when her parents were on the brink of divorce.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1JFz6k6zE