In addition to the severe medical complications that could lead to the effects of childhood obesity. It may also represent a major psychological and emotional suffering for the child who suffers. The overweight kids tend to be constantly teased by their classmates or peers at school. This may cause them psychological and emotional problems and severe difficulties in relating to other children.

This causes negative impact of obesity on the child’s psyche, not only has short term but may also lead to problems and long-term complications. It is likely that a child growing form his personality being obese in relation to that fact.

Nowadays society demands an ideal model in which people should be thin and every person that does not fit this model certainly will feel affected by this. In the case of children, youth and adolescents, it is likely that their classmates do notice it, make fun of them and put aside for the sake of “being fat.” For this reason, it is likely that difficult for them to establish links with their peers and feel slighted by them. Gradually, the child or child begins to feel as if I were worth less than others. Their self-esteem is reduced and passes to affect you in all aspects of their lives, making the child’s own self-limiting because they feel less than others.

Thus, the contempt of their peers may cause the child to complete isolation from others.

To summarize, the psychological and emotional effects most frequently experienced by children with obesity are:

* Low self-esteem
* Depression
* Anxiety
* Emotional instability
* Difficulty relating to other people and children
* Eating Disorders
* Antisocial attitudes
* Distorted perception of themselves
* Is believed that a possible psychological effect can be suicidal thinking.