In particular, chronic conditions such as bedwetting, obesity, asthma, diabetes, and attention deficit disorder are associated with significant social isolation. This isolation is much worse in disorders with a social stigma attached, such as bedwetting and obesity. Nearly two hundred million children and teenagers in the world wet the bed, but most think that they are the only one with the problem. Even parents of bedwetters do not talk to other people about their child's bedwetting because of the embarrassment. The social stigma results even in avoidance of treatment, although bedwetting can be successfully treated in the majority of cases.
Obesity produces social isolation because of the teasing by peers of obese children and teens.
Obesity in children, as well as in adults, is primarily due to overeating in order to avoid feelings of unhappiness or boredom. Social isolation from teasing results in a vicious circle of more unhappiness, more overeating, more weight gain, more social isolation, and so on. Children with chronic disorders, such as bedwetting, live secret lives. He fears that he will wet the bed and that he will be humiliated when his teammates discover his secret. I've been secretly living life as a bedwetter for as long as I can remember.