Often, a great interest in physical care and personal aesthetics is associated with something cold and superficial, away from things that are normally considered “deep” or interesting to analyze. Does this indicate great disrecognise since you take care of your physique?Without making it an obsession is to treat well-being comprehensively. To feel good inside, it’s good to feel good on the outside.
In addition, the relationship with one’s own body can mark a before and after in our lives: feeling beautiful is a sign of good mental health, worrying about one’s hygiene, smell or harmony and the beauty of the body is not superficial: it is a sign of self-love.
- Who has never heard that “big changes must be accompanied by a makeover.
- “It’s a somewhat banal and popular saying.
- But it hides part of the reason.
- Sometimes people feel they want radical change.
- But they don’t know how to deal with it.
- Inspiration or the media is lacking.
- But not the will.
That is why a physical change can start from the inspiration and motivation to make another type of decision or assume another type of routine, this is well known in the oncology service of many hospitals: it is already established as an accompaniment treatment to combat the effects. of chemotherapy on the physical appearance of patients with cosmetic workshops.
It is always said that in these cases health is paramount and that the person with cancer should focus mainly on overcoming it, we really have to wonder if those who talk about it have already lived it and if they know the true meaning of health. as a global concept.
If you know what it means for a woman to have a mastectomy, or for a man or woman to suddenly lose her hair, eyelashes or suffer skin dryness.
Just as we should not judge how to treat the physical symptoms of the disease, each person has a different strategy to do so with the aesthetic changes that the disease can bring, therefore, for some, showing the effects of the disease naturally without trying to hide it does not imply a matter of great importance.
For others, it is natural to combat these effects, allowing, through different techniques, that their physical appearance does not reveal the process of medical control in which they are immersed, is a different way of coping with the disease.
There’s a really inspiring story about this issue. In 1988, Dr. Brinkenhoff’s wife, Gayle, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. As Michael progressed through this complex physical and emotional process, he wanted to help Gayle see and feel better.
As a result, in 2006, she created an innovative cosmetics brand to encourage women with cancer to use products to grow their lashes and eyebrows. An example of how aesthetics is not only a cold and superficial subject, but often reflects struggle and will. Win.
There is an important relationship between the physical abandonment and severity of certain psychopathological disorders, without going too far, one of the indicators that aggravates the prognosis of many moods is the abandonment of physical appearance care.
In depression, there is a widespread loss of interest in activities that were previously enjoyed; there is an anhedonia to what happens in life, an inability to receive stimuli, or an inability to take advantage of them; no wonder that finding pleasure seeing yourself in the mirror is not part of a depressed person’s behavior.
This is not the time that no one can spend taking care of their skin or image, it is the pleasure of looking and feeling good, whether you are makeup or not, the person who loses interest in his life also loses him to look and feel. Well.
Your physical appearance recognizes and appreciates the care you give it, when and when it comes from a desire and not taxes. As with most problems, separating the pathological from what is not depends on a very fine line.
Taking care of your physical appearance as a priority in your life is totally respectable and even healthy, but feeling pressured and anxious about not being able to fit a model of perfection and doing everything you can to achieve it can have negative consequences.
It is possible to invest large sums of money compulsively and feel that you are never perfect enough for others. You can even measure your personal worth in terms of weight and appearance, which obviously means crossing that line.
Dysmorphia is a psychological disorder in which a person is unable to lead a normal life due to a real or imaginary physical defect, the person spends countless hours reviewing their physical appearance and can undergo a multitude of treatments and surgeries without feeling completely satisfied. This disorder is on the rise and increasingly present among young people, due to the growing influence of advertising and Internet access.
The most important thing to feel good about others is not to assume external models, you have to start from the image itself, visualize the body without judging and choose to know what you want to improve the body according to how you feel at all times.
Sometimes it’s about improving what we see and other times it’s about the relationship with what we see, it’s always important to remember that nothing happens in isolation and that the body and mind are one, even in the mirror. to want to see you better in this reflection and remember that smiling is a perfect complement and ally to achieve it.