SYNDROME KVAZIMODO

On the statistican, to 80 % of teenagers are not happy with the appearance and suffer so-called «a syndrome of Kvazimodo».

Recently the number of young men and girls which are dissatisfied with the appearance, has increased. From pages of glossy magazines and from screens of TVs on us manufacturers of cosmetic means, clothes and training apparatus press also. Special disgust in teenagers is caused by their chins, noses and ears. The girls subject to a syndrome of Kvazimodo, hours spend time before a mirror, remembering successful foreshortenings from which they, in their opinion, not so are ugly or absolutely refuse to be photographed. Also are ready to go on any of a victim.

Children till 12 years worries a little, as they look about the parties and what impression make on associates. Experiences concerning the appearance begin in awkward age, and all subsequent life the opinion on depends on perception of a society. As a rule, the person sees itself in slightly deformed light. Psychologists have made the following experiment. Have offered group of examinees of 9 photos of strangers to choose with whom they are most of all similar outwardly. All participants have chosen a photo with the most beautiful appearance. Hence, though we also are subject to various complexes, but subconsciousness actively resists.

How to endure sidrom Kvazimodo - false representation about own ugliness?

To teenagers:

Associates perceive you as a whole, instead of by separate parts. And perfect appearance does not guarantee absolute happiness.

Cosmetology technologies develop much faster, than spiritual and intellectual possibilities of the person. Instead of laying down under a knife of the cosmetic surgeon, visit a beauty salon where to you will make correction of a figure and the person on special devices. Everything can become beautiful, there would be a desire. And implants of talent, mind or kindness while nobody has invented.

Obsession can end with diets if not with resuscitation, the terrible diagnosis «sexual nedorazvitie».

To parents:

To talk to the child and to explain to it that any time it will be «a disgusting duckling»

Switch the basic attention of the child to that hobby in which it reaches notable results (the first place on run, perfectly understands computers and etc.)

Correctly to perceive the information from pages of glossy magazines for a long time it is time to teach at school as one of sections of bases of safety of life. Bring up in the teenager of culture of reading of such editions. Let the model from a magazine cover is beautiful. And I Masha Ivanov also am proud of it.

Some parents say to the children that their appearance is far from ideal, thereby adding oil to fire. In such strange way they want to generate a correct vital position as the overestimated self-estimation too causes many problems at the offsprings.