What is Morexia or fear of age and how to avoid it

After 45 years dedicated to interpretation in the film industry, Actress Demi Moore has won her first Golden Globe For his wonderful role in the long -term clerk of horror The substance. It is a movie that has given much to talk about because inquires crudely into social pressure for staying youngwhich results in a Mental disorder that is known as “morexia” or fear of aging, typified by the American Psychiatry Association as a serious mental disorder.

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Psychiatrist Remedios Gutiérrez and the psychoanalyst Juan Martínez-Mena of the CEAP warn that this is a problem that could affect no less than 2.4% of the population general.

Dr. Tallaj, plastic surgeon, aesthetic doctor and professor of aging biochemistry at the University of Seville, says “It is not in this case a passenger fearnatural at certain times of life, but of a persistent fear that derives in anxiety and obsessive correction of changes Physical that occur. ”

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Why do you talk so much about Morexia now?

The reason why Midorexia has begun to be discussed is that, in The substance, Demi Moore plays a 50 -year -old actress who the industry has rejected for being “too old”. She decides to take a substance (hence the name of the film) to reach her best version, that is, a younger one.

According to the CEAP psychonalist, Juan Martínez-Mena Aesthetic medicine patients. 53% of them have morexia. In the words of the expert, “the belief that the appearance of physical youth is equivalent to worth and success has never been socially widespread, while the one who ‘noticed’ is considered almost as a personal failure.” Is what in the United States is known as Beauty Privilege or belief that the greater beauty, youth, thinness … greater possibilities of access and labor ascent, social success, loving, etc.

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But how is Morexia diagnosed? Dr. Remedios Gutiérrez, a psychiatrist, psychonalist, internist, endocrinologist and founding member of the CEAP, ensures that the people who have it tend to want to hide the signs of the passage of time with aesthetic procedures falling many times in the Overtraction. They also continue extreme diets And they practice obsessive exerciseamong other things.

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How can we prevent Morexia?

According to Dr. Gutiérrez, “the only solution goes through Learn to accept intrinsic change to aging“.” The best preventive not to fall into obsession goes through establish a real collaboration between aesthetics specialists and psychotherapistsputting the physical and mental health of the patient above all and referring to experts in mental health the cases with suspected morexia, dysmorphobia, tcas … “.

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For Dr. Tallaj, it would be advisable to look at faces such as those of Mery Streep, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Jessica Parker or Sharon Stone“that are operated in some cases, retouched in others, but always low Aesthetic criteria that dignify agingwithout distorting the factions to the cartoon. “This is as important as taking into account the following tips:

• Take care of the postural correction of the face: Take care of our facial postural hygiene It is essential to age “beautiful.”
• Take care of food and avoid, with common sense, the prohibited food of the Queen Letizia dietwhich is one of the most aging.
• Join the movement Mental Beauty To enjoy your Skincare and from each of the beauty treatments you make and learn to receive them positively and never from the obsession with the achievement of results.
• Protect your skin from the sun and follow a good pampering routine at home, if it can be, guided by a professional.
• Avoid resorting to aesthetic treatments to get another person’s face. Look for your best version and make it always be consistent with your age to avoid an artificial and unrealistic aspect.
• Always put on In the hands of authentic professionals.
• Carefully Mental health.

All of the above is related to what Dr. Tsagaris, expert facial therapist affirms and is considered the best acupuncturer in the world in whom actresses like Penelope Cruz trust: “You don’t have to be afraid to age, the years must be celebrated, The important thing is to get older instead of trying to seem to be younger artificially“It is not about saying not to surgery and aesthetic medicine but also use them with coherence and responsibility.