Contents:

Chapter 1: Plastic surgery is addictive. “Body disgust” is at work.

Chapter 2: Take stock of two or three psychological misunderstandings about plastic surgery.

Chapter 3: The psychology of plastic surgery that you don’t know

Nowadays women are pursuing perfection and always go for plastic surgery. This is a typical psychological "body" problem with plastic surgery. disgust". Below, the editor will explain to you in detail what body aversion is, how to correctly treat the psychology of plastic surgery, and how to get rid of this strange psychology.

I will be addicted to plastic surgery "body aversion" at work

Typical case: inexplicable plastic surgery knot

Did you know? Did you know? Many people undergo plastic surgery because of some inexplicable psychological problems. What's strange?

Let’s take a look at two real cases.

24-year-old He Ming is a young man who has just entered the workplace. He said he was a small man and unmanly. That day, he suddenly found that he looked ugly in the mirror, especially his small flat nose, which was not beautiful. He wanted to get his nose done. His mother said he had a good nose. But to this day, he still feels that his nose is ugly, so he thought of plastic surgery. He went to a beauty hospital and the doctor told him that there was nothing wrong with his nose and that he should consider it carefully. He asked: Do I need surgery?

What kind of psychology is this? Why would a good young man fight with his nose?

Cao Hui is a 26-year-old medical graduate student, tall and handsome. The strange thing is that this is the girl who says whether she is ugly or not. She felt her mouth was crooked and ugly. However, as a counselor, I didn't see anything strange about this girl's mouth at all. What the hell is going on? She said: It was probably when she was in junior high school that her mouth felt crooked, but her family and doctors said it was fine. To deal with her, doctors resorted to acupuncture. Later, she treated herself with acupuncture. One day, after seeing information about plastic surgery, she seemed to have found hope and decided to undergo plastic surgery. But my family objected. She asked: Do I want plastic surgery?

What kind of psychology is this? Why do good girls talk so hard?

Psychological analysis: It is all caused by physical disgust.

The knot between He Ming and Cao Hui, who want plastic surgery, is called "body aversion" in psychology. The so-called body shape aversion disorder mainly manifests as being very concerned about one's appearance and having a psychological disgust towards a certain part of one's body. Generally speaking, men often think that their nose is not high or straight, their sexual desire is not big enough, their body is not tall enough, etc. Women often feel that their mouths are ugly, their breasts are too small and not sexy enough, their bodies are fat and slim, etc. Therefore, plastic surgery and plastic surgery for men and women are often related to these parts. The more obvious one is that men like to have their noses reshaped, while women like to have their mouths reshaped.

Why is this? From the perspective of psychological analysis, graphic disgust often has its symbolic meaning. The nose is the "protruding" part of the body, so it has the symbolic meaning of male genitals, making people subconsciously think of male genitals. The mouth is a hole in the body, so it has the symbolic meaning of female genitalia, making people subconsciously think of female genitalia. The same is true in life. A man's nose can make a woman feel sexy, and a woman's mouth can make a man feel sexy. Therefore, the nose often worries about men who lack male gender self-confidence, and the mouth often worries about women who lack female gender self-confidence. Of course, hating white people for being too short and slim is also a sign of worrying about one’s own sexual attractiveness. Worry about breasts or penis is a direct reflection of psychosexual issues.

So, why do people have body aversion?

When He Ming was in the sixth grade of elementary school, one day he and his classmates urinated in the toilet during recess and were laughed at loudly by a classmate. Come and see how small his urine is! From then on, He Ming always felt ashamed and painful about his genitals and did not dare to go to the school toilet. He didn't start dating girls until his sophomore year in high school, but he didn't expect that he would be rejected the first time he wrote a note. Since then, he discovered that there was something wrong with his nose.

When Cao Hui was a child, her parents often quarreled and were very strict with her. No matter what she did, her parents were always dissatisfied and critical. This caused great harm to Cao Hui's psychology, making her feel insecure and inferior since she was a child. In middle school, she experienced a hazy first love.

But the boy left her and got along with another girl. From then on, she felt ugly and her mouth was crooked.

In this way, people with body aversion often suffer from sexual and psychological setbacks, which affects gender and the self-confidence of the entire person.

Psychological countermeasures: Calm your mind before plastic surgery.

Whether judging from the cases of psychological consultation or the information from beauty hospitals, the above two examples are not isolated cases. So, what should you do if you are one of them? The best thing to do is to "get your mind right" before plastic surgery.

One of the psychological strategies: cognitive adjustment

First of all, understand yourself correctly and learn to accept yourself. This requires learning to look at problems from different perspectives. Look at yourself, look at life. Of course, it also includes re-understanding and discovering your own gender charm. In this way, we will gradually get rid of cognitive misunderstandings, re-recognize ourselves, and learn to accept ourselves. Once a person accepts himself from another angle, fat means plump, thin means slim, short means stocky, and tall means straight. Everything about you has a unique charm, so there will be no problem with your nose or mouth.

Secondly, pay attention to your inner charm and bring it into play. A person's true charm comes from the heart, and exerting one's inner charm is fundamental. For example, although you are not proud, you are talented and smart. You cherish and appreciate your talents. When you realize that others admire and envy your talents, you may be able to accept yourself; if your abilities are average, you can Focusing on your own character, fully recognizing your own kindness and generosity, and sensing genuine compliments and closeness from those around you can also help you accept yourself.

The second strategy of psychological adjustment: behavioral adjustment

First, change your life behavior pattern: However, people who are disgusted with their body shape will notice the improvement of self-acceptance. Inadequacy; people who lack self-acceptance are often self-enclosed. Therefore, we must work hard to get out of the closed self and improve interpersonal interactions (including opposite-sex interactions). In interpersonal interactions, others' acceptance of oneself helps strengthen self-acceptance.

Secondly, take special measures to curb the urge for plastic surgery. Delay can be used. When you feel the urge to have plastic surgery, don't make the decision right away, but postpone it and wait. After a month, reason may win out over impulse. You can also use diversion methods to enrich your life and shift your attention to other things, thereby diluting the idea of ??plastic surgery. When necessary, psychological knots can be resolved scientifically under the guidance of psychological professionals.

Take stock of two or three psychological misunderstandings about plastic surgery.

With the continuous development of science and technology, people can modify their appearance according to their own wishes: double eyelid cutting, nose augmentation, and chin sharpening. However, there are also people who are addicted to plastic surgery due to psychological deviations. They are dissatisfied with themselves and hope to have a perfect face through plastic surgery to meet their needs for recognition. There are many people who have this kind of psychological misunderstanding about plastic surgery.

Everyone loves beauty, but those who can choose plastic surgery have different moods and needs. Next, let’s look at a few cases.

Event 1

25-year-old Xiaojing is a professional model. She is 1.72 meters tall, with fair skin and delicate facial features. In the year of graduation, Xiaojing had her first double eyelid surgery. In the following three years, she underwent four rhinoplasty surgeries, chin augmentation, eye bag removal, temple augmentation, face slimming, and liposuction. As soon as she heard about which hospital had good plastic surgery results, she rushed there. Not long ago, she made an appointment for chin liposuction and face-lift surgery. Her request to the doctor is that her cheeks cannot be seen after plastic surgery, and there are no wrinkles around her eyes when she smiles.

Two incidents

21-year-old Wang Fen accidentally bumped her nose before the college entrance examination. Since then, she always felt that her nose was crooked. Every time she looked in the mirror, she felt uncomfortable and couldn't even breathe smoothly. She went to more than a dozen hospitals for plastic surgery. Doctors found that her nose was normal, they didn't

24-year-old Yu Jing was dissatisfied with her wide face and had a soft spot for Fan Bingbing's thin face. In order to make herself look exactly like Fan Bingbing, she went to many plastic surgery hospitals, but all the doctors said "it is impossible to turn her into Fan Bingbing." An expert from a plastic surgery hospital said that more than 200 people in the hospital alone request to be "Fan Bingbing" every year.

Information from the editor: The above examples are all due to psychological factors that lead to dependence on plastic surgery, and they are all psychological misunderstandings about plastic surgery. For such people, experts recommend correcting their attitude towards plastic surgery and consulting a psychologist before plastic surgery.

The psychology of plastic surgery you don’t know

With the development of the plastic surgery and beauty industry, we have more possibilities than our predecessors. The seemingly unchangeable appearance can be changed. Today's subjectivity has magically changed. More and more people are beginning to accept and try plastic surgery, but some are addicted to it.

Addicted to plastic surgery and beware of "plastic surgery addiction"

There is nothing wrong with a person choosing artificial transformation to improve himself, because plastic surgery itself is a process of one's pursuit of beauty and is only related to one's personal lifestyle related to aesthetic orientation. And when we look at a person’s psychology about plastic surgery, we don’t need to wear colored glasses. But when more and more news about repeated plastic surgery fills our eyes, psychologists are worried about it. If they undergo plastic surgery frequently, they are likely to become addicted to plastic surgery and suffer from "plastic surgery addiction."

Of course, it must be pointed out that not all people who undergo plastic surgery have psychological problems, nor are they opposed to some appropriate plastic surgery. "Plastic surgery addiction", or "excessive plastic surgery", only targets those who have repeatedly modified the same part several times (more than double digits) or have almost their entire body "repaired".

"Plastic surgery addiction" stems from a paranoid mentality.

Experts believe that "plastic surgery addiction" mainly stems from a paranoid mentality:

First, disapproval of oneself. The recipient hated me for who I was, didn't want to see her, or even wanted to lose her. To blame the unsatisfactory life on the emergence of the self, simply put, is to reject one's own self-identity and reject one's own birth, growth, and self-existence. However, that feeling of rejection is not enough as a way to end one's life, so the subject Choose to try to change.

The second is "heart addiction". After the operation, the patient is satisfied and appreciated, and the psychological energy such as tension accumulated before will be released, resulting in a sense of pleasure and satisfaction. If a person's pleasure and satisfaction after plastic surgery are far greater than the pain caused by the surgery and the fear of plastic surgery failure, this sense of satisfaction will in turn strengthen the plastic surgery behavior, and the whole process will be repeated.

Third, it is unrealistic. Excessive demands and unrealistic fantasies about plastic surgery perfection. In fact, these patients all suffer from the mental illness of "phantom ugliness". They always feel ugly, keep having plastic surgery, constantly pursue perfection, and are always dissatisfied with the results of plastic surgery. I've always tried to achieve my ideal appearance through plastic surgery.

The psychological key to solving problems

In fact, plastic surgery addiction is similar to shopping addiction. It belongs to the category of obsessive-compulsive disorder and involves compulsive behavior. In the face of this kind of mental illness, if it is not corrected in time, it may lead to more adverse consequences such as paranoia, anxiety, and mental illness.

In order to alleviate the troubles caused by "plastic surgery addiction", experts have the following suggestions:

First, mild patients should relax themselves. For example, do deep breathing exercises, participate in more group activities and cultural and sports activities, engage in more ideal and interesting jobs, and cultivate interests and hobbies in life, thereby establishing new excitement points to suppress pathological excitement points.

Second, severely ill patients can seek help from psychological professionals, such as supportive therapy. In the form of group therapy, people with the same troubles get together to find out the causes of symptoms under the guidance of professionals, support each other, inspire each other, and solve their respective problems in a targeted manner.

The pursuit of beauty is human instinct and nature, but beauty has many levels. It is not just the absolute beauty of eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth, but a three-dimensional and harmonious feeling. Therefore, beauty seekers must adjust their mentality according to their actual situation before undergoing plastic surgery.

Summary: Although plastic surgery can make you more beautiful, the harm to the body should not be underestimated. Don't go for plastic surgery easily. We should all look at the psychology of plastic surgery correctly. Before plastic surgery, everyone must have an overall mentality. (The article was originally published in "Everyone's Health", ISSN: 2012/02, author Lin Yong, and the copyright belongs to the author; the purpose of reprinting is to convey more information, which does not mean that 360 Knowledge Network agrees with its views and is responsible for its authenticity. If involved For content, copyright and other issues, please contact us as soon as possible and we will delete the content as soon as possible)