How to work with anxious patients in aesthetic medicine
An individual approach, psychological support and assistance are the key to a successful procedure.
A personalized approach in dermatocosmetology is no less important than the result of the procedure itself. It happens that, against the backdrop of stress from the procedure, patients experience an aggravation of their pathologies associated with mental health. We talk about how to help a patient in need of psychological support.
Lyudmila Fedorich, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Course of Dermatology and Venereology, Ukrainian Military Medical Academy (Ukraine)
Who among us as teenagers did not linger at the mirror to examine in detail the features of our appearance: the color and size of our eyes, the clarity of the line of our nose, the presence of pimples on the skin of our forehead and cheeks? Willy-nilly, girls mentally compared their figure with the “parameters” of a girlfriend or favorite actress, and boys strived to be like the main characters of action films and adventure films. The desire to be slimmer, more beautiful and stronger encouraged many to adhere to fashionable diets and attend sports clubs, but intense studies in high school and the ever-increasing pace of life switched the main attention of most teenagers from appearance to the formation of a life position, setting immediate and long-term goals, as well as choosing a profession .
Unfortunately, this “switching” does not happen to all young people. Some of them retain a significantly increased interest in their own appearance even into adulthood. Moreover, it is believed that at the present stage of development of a civilized society, approximately one person in a hundred is focused not so much on the assessment of his appearance by others, but considers himself to be inconsistent with his own standards. This means that such a person may very likely be among those reading this article.
There is no exact information about how many people in the modern world suffer from a painful attitude towards their own physical parameters, because the majority refuses to even talk about their experiences, much less ask for help. In fact, such patients are found quite often, and their greatest concentration is observed within the walls of cosmetology offices and aesthetic medicine clinics.
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