2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Excess weight as a result of the intrapersonal conflict between "want" and "need." If we are often criticized, forced, while devaluing our true desires, we learn to hide our emotions and needs. But you need to get pleasure from somewhere! So the habit of enjoying food is formed.
Excess weight as a symptom of anxiety and depression. Please note: most people begin to overeat precisely in situations of stress, uncertainty, unfulfillment. And then we say that we "seize" our own emotions. Indeed, research has shown that these emotions are mainly: sadness, sadness, excitement, insecurity, feelings of inferiority, and aggression.
Overweight as an illustration of addiction. Food cult, constant desire to chew, portions of food, much more than usual. Quite often, there is a certain other addiction behind food addiction. And if, for example, the problem of being overweight is eliminated and the addiction is not worked out, it will shift in the other direction - a person will start smoking, drinking, he may have shopaholism or an excessive thirst for sexual entertainment.
Excess weight as an illustration of the "real estate" of mental or life processes. If nothing has changed in your life for years or even decades, you feel as if you have stopped moving for a long time and are standing still. In psychology, there is an opinion that deferred desires, deferred emotions, deferred words and actions can act as excess weight.
Excess weight as a "secondary benefit"
Being overweight often brings the following secondary benefits:
- Helps to seem like a cute and cuddly teddy bear.
- Allows you to take up more space, space.
- Adds significance, importance to the appearance.
- Serves as an excuse for life failures.
- Allows you to evoke certain emotions from others.
- Avoiding certain unpleasant actions and events in life.
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