Plastic Surgery Addiction
Zerpa 1 Cesar Zerpa. Professor Pacifico Pre-degree III 3 May 2013 Plastic Surgery Addiction
Every year society is bombed with thousands of images of beautiful models and celebrities. This “reality” affect the sub-conscientious of many people with low self-steam and fill the mind of men and women with insecurities about their body images. Plastic surgery appears as an easy solution to this matter, but actually, cosmetic surgery can be just the tip of the iceberg of a more complex issue related with body images problems. Plastic surgery is not always related with a bad thing. For example, facial and body injuries that cause a deformity can be corrected by plastic surgery. Also, plastic surgery can be a necessary in cases of extreme obesity as a solution to safe the patient life. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of cosmetic procedures has risen 77 percent in the last decade and 60% of plastic surgery patients are repeat customers (qtd.in Ball). This increasing obsession with body images and looks has spawned a growing number of plastic surgery addicts. Moreover, a mental illness knows as BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder), is one of the major causes of addiction to cosmetic surgeries and the effects that this problem can lead are really severe as disfiguration or lost of functionality in body parts.
Social pressure of looking young and fresh is always a concern, and more and more people are taking radical actions to solve this conflict. These actions are now based in cosmetic and plastic surgeries that can be invasive and extremely dangerous. The race against ageism is a common thing between men and women around the globe. Amy Wechesler M.D. Dermatologist and Psychiatrist, said that many people suffer of “Cinderella Complex”, a syndrome where the person expect a almost magical solution of their problems, just by changing their appearance. She said: “Managing the
Zerpa 2 expectation of the patient is very
Every year society is bombed with thousands of images of beautiful models and celebrities. This “reality” affect the sub-conscientious of many people with low self-steam and fill the mind of men and women with insecurities about their body images. Plastic surgery appears as an easy solution to this matter, but actually, cosmetic surgery can be just the tip of the iceberg of a more complex issue related with body images problems. Plastic surgery is not always related with a bad thing. For example, facial and body injuries that cause a deformity can be corrected by plastic surgery. Also, plastic surgery can be a necessary in cases of extreme obesity as a solution to safe the patient life. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of cosmetic procedures has risen 77 percent in the last decade and 60% of plastic surgery patients are repeat customers (qtd.in Ball). This increasing obsession with body images and looks has spawned a growing number of plastic surgery addicts. Moreover, a mental illness knows as BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder), is one of the major causes of addiction to cosmetic surgeries and the effects that this problem can lead are really severe as disfiguration or lost of functionality in body parts.
Social pressure of looking young and fresh is always a concern, and more and more people are taking radical actions to solve this conflict. These actions are now based in cosmetic and plastic surgeries that can be invasive and extremely dangerous. The race against ageism is a common thing between men and women around the globe. Amy Wechesler M.D. Dermatologist and Psychiatrist, said that many people suffer of “Cinderella Complex”, a syndrome where the person expect a almost magical solution of their problems, just by changing their appearance. She said: “Managing the
Zerpa 2 expectation of the patient is very
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