Talking about "body anxiety"
Peng Yisan
"Body anxiety" starts with me. The concepts associated with "body shape" in relation to "body anxiety" can be "body type" and "weight". A year ago, I was hospitalized for a physical examination and was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis; I also had a gastrointestinal endoscopy at the same time. When I was first admitted to the hospital, the nurse gave me a comprehensive physical assessment, and according to my height of 162 cm at the time and the relevant measurement standards, it was determined that my weight of 63.5 kg was slightly overweight. Because I had to fast in advance for the gastrointestinal endoscopy, I had a tiny polyp removed after the examination, and then fasted with infusion. After fasting for a few days, from the outside, my whole body was obviously emaciated, and I was a little panicked and couldn't lose weight anymore. After that, I was very concerned about my weight, and I paid attention to the diet to nourish my body, so that my weight recovered slightly. In recent months, I have weighed myself every morning and evening, always hoping that I will not lose too much weight and that I will hold the 60-kilogram line. I used to be anxious about my 73-kilogram weight and I couldn't get rid of my big belly, and now I'm worried about high blood sugar and fear of losing too much weight.
I was invited by my cousin to Shenzhen for the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the past few days, I accompanied my cousin to Shenzhen Nanshan High-tech Nanshe Kangzha Acupuncture, and inadvertently talked to the attending physician Dr. Lu about the topic of "body anxiety", and I picked up my mouth. I feel that this is a common problem in today's society, which is both a mental illness and an urban disease. The problem is that many women who are in good shape, because of misunderstandings about their figures, blindly lose weight, and as a result, they have slimmed down a good person into a patient. Dr. Lu talked about a middle-aged woman in her early forties, 164 centimeters tall and weighing 57 kilograms, which is already very good at her age, height, weight, and figure. She accompanied her colleague to the community health center to lose weight, and her colleague's figure has changed, and due to the influence of the weight loss atmosphere among female colleagues in the unit, she is also moved to lose weight and want to pursue better body results. But the doctor was kind, and Dr. Lu advised her not to lose weight, because as women age, they need a moderate amount of fat to protect their internal organs and keep the endocrine system stable.
There is also a woman in her early thirties, engaged in international trade circulation, 156 cm tall, weighing 54 kg, from the appearance, the figure is very fit. She went to the community health center to choose acupoint thread embedding therapy because she wanted to lose weight locally and solve the problem of thick thighs. In order to pursue a good figure, she used to exercise and control her diet, but she still had the problem of thick thighs. Under the advice of her fitness coach, she received acupuncture point embedding therapy from traditional Chinese medicine, coupled with professional psychological counseling from doctors, her body line was improved and her self-confidence was restored.
There is another little girl from a good family, who went to high school in Hong Kong out of the family environment, because she was a little fat, so she controlled her diet during the day and just ate some fruits and other things. But at night, when hunger hits, they eat snacks such as biscuits indiscriminately, and sometimes they even eat barbecue supper. Her life is irregular, her diet is not controlled, her physiology is disordered, her liver function has been abnormal, and she has not loved her "eldest aunt" for six months. She was introduced to Dr. Lu, who gave her an effective TCM professional and technical conditioning, coupled with psychological counseling, which saved the physical and mental health of the young girl in time.
The fourth episode of the Shenzhen "Shining Pediatrician" documentary reported on the experience of the girl with the pseudonym Xiaoling in the flower season is a sigh. This Xiaoling was only 15 years old and fell in love with a boy, but the boy thought she was fat, so she desperately lost weight, resulting in anorexia nervosa, severe malnutrition, irreversible brain damage caused by low blood sugar, and multiple organs in the body failed, and finally became brain dead from a vegetative person, and "body anxiety" went to the extreme.
There is an eldest sister next to me, 164 cm tall, less than 60 kg in weight, seventy years old, and her figure is still relatively good; But she was still not satisfied, and from time to time she muttered, "My belly has grown fat and I want to lose weight". His husband often humors her, don't be afraid, you can grow a few more kilograms, I don't think you're gaining weight. Because she has maintained a good figure for a long time, her face is good, and her face does not look old, so that some people once looked away and mistakenly thought that she was her husband's daughter-in-law. In fact, her husband is a year younger than her. You say, it's such a physical condition, and you are still "thinking of danger in times of peace", and you also have the worry of "body anxiety", do you think it's a little strange?
The above gossip is up to me and people. "Body anxiety" occurs at all ages, and it is indeed a common psychological problem in modern society, indicating that there are many people who are uneasy and dissatisfied with their physical form. Everyone has a love for beauty. The formation of a good figure has both innate factors and acquired causes; In addition, there is the problem of social convergence and aesthetic view. Good figure, can produce image confidence for themselves in social interactions; If you are not in good shape, under certain conditions, you can also change it through physical exercise, and Jia Ling in the movie "Spicy and Hot" is a successful example. If the congenital body condition is not good, the conditions that all parties want to change cannot be met or made up, and there is no need to deliberately pursue a good body that takes care of the ideal. I think that in addition to a good figure and good face, a woman should also have a good temperament, which is the beautiful standard of "three good". And good temperament is based on the premise of good figure, which is the comprehensive formation of the upbringing and cultural accomplishment she received, and the civilized information of social interaction that she absorbed. Good figure, it is considered to be good in its own conditions, but it is not entirely the capital of pride; Moreover, we should not misuse unrealistic conservation methods for the sake of blindly emphasizing maintenance, resulting in an imbalance in mentality; If you are not in good shape, you don't have to seek satisfaction excessively, you can supplement and publicize the shortcomings of your own image with cultural accomplishment, professional expertise, and different temperament. The star image of the "fat" Shen Dianxia is particularly recognized by the public, which is a typical example.
Based on the above gossip, I think that "body anxiety" is an urban disease, and people of different ages have different anxieties about their body. From the perspective of interpersonal relationships and social interactions, people, especially women of the same age, consciously or unconsciously, instinctively want to compare their bodies with the people around them in the working environment and social occasions, and it is one thing to be praised or envied by others, but it is also easy to produce self-denial and inferiority complex that is not satisfied with their own figure, and even the dark psychology of jealousy. Because this kind of emotion is universal, from the perspective of health education, I put forward the "three guides" suggestions to curb "body anxiety":
1. Guide children and adolescents
Children are in the stage of growth and development, the difference between excessive fat and thin body shape is only an individual phenomenon, unless it is a special disease, as long as they are guided to pay attention to reasonable nutrition, exercise and life rules, the body will naturally grow up healthily, and there is generally no problem of "body anxiety".
When children enter puberty, their physical development changes greatly, their body shape changes significantly, and the differences between individuals in body shape are highlighted. Teachers and parents have the responsibility to guide students to establish a correct body shape aesthetic and an unavoidable view of heterosexual admiration, so as to avoid the tragedy of "Xiaoling".
2. Guidance for body seekers of different ages
The overall responsibility for such guidance is vested in government-affiliated health education institutions. The media positively disseminates relevant knowledge and plays a positive guiding role. Members of the society should strengthen their own learning and cultivation, take the initiative to accept positive and positive relevant knowledge guidance, and have self-knowledge of their own body knowledge, not only self-confidence, but also to overcome inferiority complex. No matter what kind of condition the body is, we must pay attention to and pursue the improvement of internal cultural quality and talent, and show the beauty of our own temperament image with the overflow of temperament. If possible, you can choose a reasonable diet and healthy exercise methods, as well as seek the conditioning of a health service center, so as to promote your body shape as much as possible to tend to be desirable or maintain it better, so as to achieve a certain level of satisfaction with your body cognition.
3. Dare to persuade the way of pursuing a body that is contrary to common sense
Nowadays, there are too many weight loss institutions and products launched in the society and publicized in the media, and many people can't stand the sensational propaganda of the bombardment, can't stand the demagoguery, and are deceived and deceived, and still have the illusion of losing fat. At this time, it is necessary to have a formal organization to stand up and put an end to negative publicity. Network management should be strengthened, and videos and Douyin accounts of false and fraudulent propaganda should be blocked. Good friends should also dare to speak out, and to their families, classmates, colleagues, and friends, if they find an obviously wrong weight loss mentality or weight loss method, they must decisively persuade and practice to jointly establish a civilized and healthy good social atmosphere.
About the Author:
Peng Yisan, born in 1955, joined the work in 1971, has served as a bank clerk, a middle school language teacher, a civil servant in the education and cultural administrative departments, a member of the Guizhou Writers Association, a member of the Guizhou Literary and Art Theorists Association, the former vice chairman of the Zunyi Literary and Art Theorists Association, the vice president of the Zunyi History and Culture Research Association, the consultant of the Zunyi Dramatists Association and the Quyi Artists Association, and the visiting professor of Zunyi Normal University, Zunyi Electric University, and Guizhou Xinhua Computer College. He has won provincial and municipal awards, and is the author of a collection of essays and commentaries "The Circle of Life" (Sichuan People's Publishing House), the editor-in-chief of the documentary collection "Where the Red Flower Blooms" (Guizhou People's Publishing House), and participated in the editor-in-chief of the documentary collection "My College Entrance Examination My University" (Southwest Jiaotong University Press).