plastic mental health

 

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People generally feel better when they look better. And sometimes people think they look better, when maybe the look a bit different.

1-Do you have any personal experience (yourself or someone you know) regarding noticeable changes in someone’s appearance? It doesn’t have to plastic surgery or injections, it could be change in hair color or loss of weight.

2-What do you think of the people in the article’s change in facial appearance? Do you think they think they look better, or are they just trying the latest and greatest procedures to look better?

3-You are the therapist. Your client first came to you due to obesity, food addiction. Your client is now very fit, and you now see that the client’s addiction seems to have moved to appearance. Your client spends an inordinate time at the gym and has had several noninvasive procedures. Although your client thought the weight loss would make him/her happy, you see that your client has replaced his/her dislike of his/her appearance as a source of being unhappy. How would you counsel your client?

4-What type of mental health issue(s) could someone have that is overly focused on their physical appearance?