Actress Megan Fox she is a woman, objectively endowed with charm, attractive. Then you may like it or not, based on personal tastes, but beauty is a dowry that belongs to her. The statement with which she herself is the first to disagree: she has always been considered sex symbolhe said recently during video interview given sports illustrationsincluding 5 to 10 million Americans affected by body dysmorphia.
“I never see myself the way others see me,” the star admits. transformers – There has never been a time in my life when I have loved my body, never. When I was little, I had an obsession that made me always look at the same flaw. I don’t know if it’s because I was immediately aware of my body from a young age.”
“It is very positive that Fox know about mental illness what he suffers from and what he decided talk about it publicly» comments doctor Emanuel Miancandidate of neurobiology and cognitive sciences, psychologist and cognitive psychotherapist, among Italy’s leading experts in the study and treatment of body image and eating disorders.
His book Mirror Escape, just released for Feltrinelli Urrà, a practical guide for learn to love and love your body, achieving a “mentality” based on a balanced lifestyle, in real harmony with the needs of your body.
We asked Mian for more clarification on the Megan Fox case, starting with the fact: Italy also suffers from body dysmorphia. “It is difficult to restore the numbers, as there are a lot of them. they don’t realize they’re facing a mental problem, so they try to fix the physical defect themselves or hide it. Often those who come to me or my colleagues to start a psychotherapeutic journey do so alone. after possibly visiting a cosmetic surgeon, after having therefore already established obsessive rituals, now well established.
In numbers, we can evaluate about 2% of people with body dysmorphiaapproaching 5% for post-adolescent subjects. In psychiatric cases, the incidence rises to 7%.
Patients suffering from body dysmorphia are not limited to psychiatry, But also dermatological, plastic or aesthetic surgery: the specialist understands that obsession simply does not arise at the external level, therefore he offers a psychotherapeutic path. Necessary, I would say, because we need to take care of ourselves so that these people see themselves as beautiful on the outside. In fact, they will never be satisfied until they start processing information about their appearance correctly.