Body image disorder

Introduction Body image disorder is also known as body image malformation. It is called ugly fantasy, malformed phobia, and beautiful obsessive-compulsive disorder in foreign countries. Body image disorder means that the individual has no defects in the objective body, or has extremely slight defects, but his subjective imagination has a peculiar ugly and extremely painful mental illness.

Cause

The causes of adolescents' physical image disorders are: on the one hand, too much attention to their form, and on the other, due to lack of sexual knowledge. There is a lack of sufficient understanding of the individual differences that exist during puberty. Blindly selecting the reference object results in a wrong psychological orientation, which in turn produces a physical obstacle.

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The so-called body image is the result of the individual's self-cognition of his own physiological body. From the perspective of the objectivity of aesthetics, people recognize that body image not only has differences in physiology, anatomy, etc., but also has value differences in aesthetic judgment. Appearance and physical defects or subjective body defects will Affecting the individual's psychological development, it is easy to form a so-called negative body image, affecting people's psychological state, and having negative psychology such as inferiority, self-enclosure, pessimism and despair. In severe cases, it may lead to depression and coercion related to appearance. Symptoms, phobias, and even mental illnesses.

Physical disorders are usually seen in sexual psychological disorders. Body image disorders generally occur during puberty. During the developmental stage, the sexual characteristics of the second sexual characteristics bring about changes in the body, such as the male body is tall, the body hair appears, the larynx is prominent, the female is breast development, and the buttocks are full. Faced with the sudden emergence of this gender difference, young men and women often lack sufficient psychological preparation. They will involuntarily compare self-image with group image, real self-image and ideal self-image. Once there is a big gap (either advanced development or lagging development), some of them will have physical obstacles. For example, physical obstacles of height, physical obstacles of sexual organs, and even physical obstacles of body hair.

Differential diagnosis

This disease is differentiated from somatization disorders: this disease is a long-standing and often changing physical symptoms, with no identifiable instrumental basis. Symptoms can affect any part of the body and the system, affected by factors such as social relationships and family.

The so-called body image is the result of the individual's self-cognition of his own physiological body. From the perspective of the objectivity of aesthetics, people recognize that body image not only has differences in physiology, anatomy, etc., but also has value differences in aesthetic judgment. Appearance and physical defects or subjective body defects will Affecting the individual's psychological development, it is easy to form a so-called negative body image, affecting people's psychological state, and having negative psychology such as inferiority, self-enclosure, pessimism and despair. In severe cases, it may lead to depression and coercion related to appearance. Symptoms, phobias, and even mental illnesses.

Physical disorders are usually seen in sexual psychological disorders. Body image disorders generally occur during puberty. During the developmental stage, the sexual characteristics of the second sexual characteristics bring about changes in the body, such as the male body is tall, the body hair appears, the larynx is prominent, the female is breast development, and the buttocks are full. Faced with the sudden emergence of this gender difference, young men and women often lack sufficient psychological preparation. They will involuntarily compare self-image with group image, real self-image and ideal self-image. Once there is a big gap (either advanced development or lagging development), some of them will have physical obstacles. For example, physical obstacles of height, physical obstacles of sexual organs, and even physical obstacles of body hair.

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