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Obesity Psychological Problems

Abdellah Elbahia Monday, March 26, 2012


It is known that obesity favors the development of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks and brain, sleep disorders and tear on joints, but not always talk about the unfavorable consequences that generate the emotional health and self-esteem of the individual. It discussed below.

According to reports obesity is one of the top 10 challenges facing medical science in all nations, because it triggers life-threatening diseases, especially the alarming development that has had in recent decades.

For obvious reasons, the current prevention campaigns emphasize undesirable consequences of overweight and infarction (tissue death in heart and brain by blockage or rupture of blood vessels), diabetes (accumulation of glucose in the blood due to absolute or partial impairment secretion and insulin action) and cancer (uncontrolled multiplication of abnormal cells that form tumors), but it is noteworthy that many experts also emphasize the impact that obesity has on the behavior and emotions of the sufferer and even stress that psychological factors are decisive for many people resist treatment or abandon it shortly after starting.

Supported by the results of recent research and observation of multiple cases, experts in human behavior suggest that further consideration be provided to a deterioration in self-esteem and quality of life of patients and helps emphasize the soul must be so prominent a line the establishment of new eating habits, exercise routines and, when needed, medication management.

We usually defined obesity as a chronic (develops over the years) caused by excess energy reserves accumulated in the body as fat. More precisely, the doctors state that a person is overweight when exceeded between 10 and 19% of their ideal weight relative to height, whereas when it exceeds 20% or more the ideal value, we are talking about obesity.

Although many stereotypes spread the image of people "plump" are funny and cheerful, the fact is they are often subjected to constant criticism, jokes, pressures and hurtful expressions by those around them, so they experience feelings of discomfort, sadness and mild depression, even at very early ages.

Not far from this order of ideas, mental health experts agree that obesity in adults is associated with emotional disorders, but points out that these difficulties do not only depend on being the target of criticism and mockery, but also by the comparison the same patient makes between physical and socially agreed stereotypes of beauty, loss of friendships and job opportunities for their condition, and frustration that is generated during his unsuccessful attempts to lose weight.

In short, psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers believe that poor control of weight can generate, in the psychic:
Difficulty in coping with situations of conflict or cause frustration and anxiety.
Negative self-esteem and low self-concept.
Depressive moods or anxiety.
Uncontrollable desire to have rewarding experiences.
Inability to make decisions on their own, which generates the behavior, is controlled by others (parents, relatives, partners or friends).
Feeling of inner emptiness and inability to control one's life.
Tendency to think that the emotional changes and problems that happen to oneself only due to external factors.
Inclination to pay much attention to the messages and criticisms offered by those closest.

That said it is easy to understand some of the difficulties faced by obese patients to initiate treatment and provide continuity, as if instead of receiving emotional support is subject to criticism and doubts, feels unsafe to undertake changes. Thus, through the years has created such a bad self-concept in a short time leaving the eating and exercise program that starts, even knowing the damage that can occur in your health by being overweight, believing that self-care not worth it.

Food pleasure
Many experts have questioned whether overeating and overweight creates emotional problems or, conversely, whether depression and low self-esteem are the source of increasing sizes. The findings of several studies indicate that either situation is possible, but also whether it is common for factors, obesity and mood disturbances, and shape are bonded to a vicious circle.

Except for those cases where the origin is genetic (heredity) or hormonal (which occurs mostly in women), there are times that being overweight begins with a problem of education, as many parents still think that a child is fat healthy, and others because the food is used as a way to show affection and get satisfaction with emotional difficulties such as anxiety or loneliness.

In any case, the obese person subconsciously knows that eating is a satisfying activity, which produces pleasure or reminds the protection of their parents, but when subjected to social judgment, criticism and unpopularity, and suffers in contradiction distress. Sooner or later find a way to release tension and to the inexperience to manage their emotions resort to food consumption as a way to feel happy. Obviously, the amount of body fat increase, and consequently also the ridicule and isolation.

Now we understand that not only low self-esteem is responsible for the ineffectiveness of many treatments and it is not true that an obese patient can not stop eating plenty of "laziness" or "unwillingness" but because for him foods are emotionally charged and difficult to give up one of its most important sources of pleasure when the victim of criticism and contempt.

It is also understandable that many weight-loss treatments include three basic points: following a diet set by a nutritionist, the practice of constant physical activity and integration of patient self-help groups or psychotherapy directed a psychologist or psychiatrist, to receive emotional support it requires to meet its objectives.

Finally, it is important that family members of people with obesity are aware of the emotional problems that can trigger some jokes and comments being made, albeit in good faith, and if the patient begins to address medical treatment his illness, the specialist also come to know how to collaborate and support, which happens almost always when talks emphasize the achievements and positive qualities of the individual, not their weight problem.

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