Post 10: How is Every Day Life and Quallity of Life?

During the first 6 years of life, children are slower at developing motor, language, and intellectual skills.  After taking an IQ test children affected with Prader-Willi have 70% lower test scores than those who are not affected. 
Throughout the day the indivduals have to fight the urge for compulsive eating; many go to psychologists, on a regular basis, to learn about how they can control their behavioral problems.  Temper tantrums, depression, and the inability to hold social relationships are some of the problems they have to learn about and try to control.
 The adults affected usually can not live independently, in most cases they live in group homes or with their family.  Also the affected ususally end up not being able to have a career.  If they do, they are constantly monitored and   Realizing that they are obese, not fully sexually developed and not as fast moving as the people around them is one of the biggest causes for the behavior problems.  In their homes they have to be carfully monitored with their food and money intake and out take. 

"Endocrine Dysfunction in Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Review with Special Reference to GH -- Burman Et Al. 22 (6): 787." Endocrine Reviews. Web. 13 Mar. 2011. <http://edrv.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/6/787>.