The Phobia of Looking Ugly

By Marcel Garnier

The majority of patients with this disorder experience extreme distress for their supposed deformity, often describing their preoccupations as "intensely painful", "excruciating", or "devastating." Most find their preoccupations difficult to control, and make little or no attempt to resist. As a result, they often spend many hours a day to think about their "defect" and how to remedy them (sometimes resorting to cosmetic surgery or self-manipulation that can worsen the situation), so that these thoughts may dominate their lives. This phobia is seen mostly in adolescents of both sexes and is closely linked to changes in the age of puberty. If these phobias affect adults it is more serious, because by the end of adolescence, the person should acquire a sense of confidence in itself would allow it the opportunity to relate harmoniously with others, without being afflicted by inferiority complexes bound physical appearance. Hence the inability to weave balanced social and sexual relations, resulting in social isolation, aggressive drives and dystonia related to sexuality. The phobia interferes with the individual's normal routine, occupational functioning, or with school or with social activities and relationships. The discomfort becomes increasingly limiting. The person may develop obsessive behaviors harmful to their health, as, in severe cases, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, self-mutilating behavior (using razor blades, needles, scissors, etc.).

• Language: English
• Publisher: ALVIS International Editions
• Release date: Jun 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476095813

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Reviews for The Phobia of Looking Ugly

[Kkubernus · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I'm assuming this book was originally written in another language and then translated to English. Unfortunately, they did a very poor job translating and made it basically unreadable. The translation doesn't make sense at all! It's hard to comprehend due to all of the author's grammatical errors, ridiculous contradictions, repeating of points, and made up words. I'm not sure why Scribd would even make this available. I read 3 pages and simply could not continue on because it was so terrible. Don't waste your time, you will just end up frustrated and annoyed.