Obesity is not only a physical problem but also can have psychological consequences.

Obesity is a health problem, but it also brings various mental disorders, ranging from social rejection to anxiety and severe depression.

People with obesity or overweight are often critical, negative comments are the butt of jokes and jokes, and are victims of discrimination. All these experiences have an important role as they undermine people’s self esteem and can be a determining factor in body image problems.

Obesity is a problem that the person must adapt, and brings a number of physical limitations and psychological problems, without ignoring the weight of society, as most things are made for thin people.

It is found that low self-esteem is associated with greater weight and overweight people tend to have a more dependent personality.

We also know that when a person starts early on obesity has more problems to adhere to treatment either psychological or medical, and people start with this problem in adulthood, usually seek social support and help to achieve well-being both physically and psychologically.

The early onset of obesity may influence body image that the person has of itself, causing low self-esteem and promotes social avoidance behavior. As a result, there is a deficit in interpersonal relationships and life satisfaction level of the individual.

Obese people are at greater risk of a poor quality of life, with its short-term consequences, as even the everyday involves greater difficulty for them: as the influence of the media extolling thinness, shopping for clothes and not find the size needed.

You eat at restaurants becomes something shameful, to take leave in public places, unsatisfactory interpersonal relationships, to enjoy leisure activities, etc..

Regarding health, this is also affected, and the quality of life decreases due to the limitations, conditions and diseases that obesity brings.

Some people tend to be more introverted, to feel shame and guilt for not being thin, may experience rejection from society, and sometimes also their own family.

There are feelings of sadness and handicap, feel that the world was not made for people of his stature, and sometimes there is negation of his own problem, which makes it difficult to accept and adhere to a beneficial treatment for them. It becomes a vicious circle where obesity causes depression and depression makes them eat more than they should.

Of all the emotional consequences and problems associated with obesity, the result of decreased quality of life, one could say that depression and / or anxiety are more common, and built an effective program to combat them, and avoid that they promote an increased weight gain.

These problems are much more common than thought, and obesity and its consequences are a condition to be handled with a team of people specialized in different areas: doctors, psychologists, nutritionists, etc.

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