Commonly as human beings we will always seek to achieve excellence in any aspect of our life with the purpose of demonstrating the best of ourselves to others. And our image is a factor that in any circumstance of our life we want it to look flawless.
According to a study conducted by the University of Massachusetts showed that men observed about 74 times a day in the mirror. While the woman averages 83 times per day.
But why this Factor? 🤔
If you know people who suffer from this problem or it is an aspect in your personality you may suffer from Captotrofilia. Which is a disease that according to Psychiatry affected people feel the need to constantly look in the mirror, in order to detect or imagine imperfections.
That can lead to decision-making due to emotional instability and therefore to the well-known plastic surgeries in all its branches. Being a surgical success does not satisfy physical desire.
Mental health specialists have generated that the diagnosis of said illness is due to low self-esteem, problems in childhood, bullying, without having a clear self-concept. We begin to generate stereotypes and prejudices not every aspect of our body due to the pressure that society or our context generates on our behavior.
Unleashing an endless number of psychological conditions that are rarely taken decisively.
That is why it is important to go to psychotherapies that strengthen self-esteem and our self-concept in order to determine from where this condition of our mind is born with the purpose of establishing an emotional stability when we look in the mirror.