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I don't get why they need to single out a person's weight as worthy of including. Why not height, eye color, hair style, style of dress, education level, sexual orientation, etc.? It's sad to me to think a perfect stranger like one's T on the first visit would choose to memorialize his impressions about a new client's weight in his files. (I am overweight so am sensitive to this.)

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Normally on an intake this is all included. I remember reading my 1st pdoc's notes-- he lncluded cognitive level of functioning, general appearance (as far as how well groomed I was), alertness, etc.

As Perna said, weight is connected to mental health, just as sexual orientation and education-- things like eye color have no bearing on that.

What if a T or pdoc described a person as "underweight female" in his initial notes or intake? Would you think differently about that?