IN a moving interview, Casey King admits that he cannot even bathe in a closed place and that most of the time he spends time sitting naked, in the company of video games. He weighs more than 700 pounds (317.5 kg), but for the 34-year-old from Georgia, the United States, that does not matter because in his head only crosses an idea of: “I will eat until I die.”

Casey suffers from morbid obesity and since the problem has worsened, he is in the care of his father. His days are spent wandering naked through the house and in front of a television perfecting his technique for video games.

“A normal day for me is waking up around 12, find something I’m going to eat right away, [and then] TV, video games, bed. There is a lot of activity,” he said in an interview for the chain TLC.

He has to bathe in a large metal tub in the courtyard of his house, to clean his back, feet and to relieve his physiological needs with the help of his father, because his weight makes it impossible for him to reach some parts of his body.

“I have to sit naked in my room with the door closed because the clothes that exist in my size are not easy to get,” he told the network. “It’s hot in Georgia, and all my clothes are tight and restricted, so being naked I feel free and nobody bothers me,” he said.

The virtual community of his video games has become the space that allows him to escape from his daily life because nobody realizes the problems he faces. “They accept me in all those virtual reality worlds and in the game world I’m in, nobody sees me and I’m safe,” he said. “Nobody sees me, that’s my outside, that’s the world in which I can be the Casey that I want to be, and not be judged by my weight … my life has not been as I thought.”

According to Casey, he was always a “big boy” and weighed around 300 pounds by the end of high school. After graduating, he started working in a couple of restaurants and frequently eat all time. “I probably had about 500 pounds, and I was finding it very hard to work, so I quit my job,” he recalled. “Then My mom said: ‘If you want to live in this house, you have to have a job,’ so she threw me out. The only place I had left to go was my father’s home, so I [came here].”

Casey’s weight continued to spiral out of control when he moved in with his father, who offered him favorite foods to please him. “Basically, the only thing I know that makes me feel happy is the food, so we eat like kings, but, in the worst way, pizzas, chicken, Japanese food, and takeaway,” he said.

Casey’s father Danny admitted that taking care of his adult son could be frustrating for him. “He gets old, and I get tired of that, he should be more active, but he’s not,” he said. (SD-Agencies)