By: Vera Srillian Dewi
Perhaps you are one of the most are not confident with your face or body? Be careful, lack believed that excessive reliance will continue to be a mental illness that is very dangerous. The mental illness name is body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), which is a mental disorder where an individual, especially woman, is excessively concerned and preoccupied with an imagined or minor defect in their appearance. They may complain of several specific features or a single feature of their appearance, or a vague feature or general appearance. Many psychological problems associated with BDD. It is natural there is a problem because the BDD associated with mental disorders and not physical. Among them are low self esteem, depression, and the extreme anxiety. Unfortunately, BDD is considered more difficult to cure than many of its possible relatives, but is nevertheless considered treatable. Because of that, it takes more knowledge about BDD so that we can provide appropriate nursing care for patients with BDD.
Low self esteem is one of the major psychological problem associated with BDD. Individual who have low self esteem will cause her always felt dissatisfied with herself. She will not be done to challenge it until whenever primaly physical problems. Low self esteem that arise can come from within herself or from the outside. When it comes from within to emerge due to the envy of others, such as she felt her nose was not as good as Princess Diana’s nose, then she would do surgery on her nose to look a lot like Princess Diana, somehow.
Similarly to low self esteem, depression have a related to BDD. Good reception from the individual to herself is essential to the satisfication of herself primarly to the form of physical acceptance. But the problem of BDD, the individual could never accept her physical condition. There is always less or not perfect in it self. This has led to depression, and untreated depression is not going to make individuals perform actions to change the appearance too much, such as plastic surgery many times.
Many other anxiety may also act as triggers to BDD onset. Not just an usual anxiety, but the extreme anxiety. Excessive anxiety arisng from discontent will get her situation. Ineffective of individuals koping causes people to worry about her that was not accepted by others. She thinks that ih her nose is not as good as her friend, then she will not be accepted in the group. Whereas, in the group thre is no rule that a person’s nose should be perfect to join there.
There is the possibility of other important psychological problem for the development of BDD, which may vary for each individual. Family environment during early development and the key relationships with family members and friends may be important in shaping the body image. So that it can mediate the suffering experienced by people with BDD, and patients can better be happy with they current situation.
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