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According to a leading psychologist, some people are becoming so desperate to enhance and improve their appearance that they are turning to DIY cosmetic surgery. Some of the more bizarre things people have tried include trying to eliminate wrinkles by ironing their skin, gluing back their ears, or even slicing themselves open in an attempt at a DIY tummy tuck.
The psychologist highlighting these scary stories is Dr. David Veale, speaking to an audience of psychologists at a conference in Bristol, UK. Dr. Veale believes that the increase in DIY cosmetic surgery was being driven by our celebrity culture – people see these celebrities with their ‘perfect’ bodies and increasingly become unhappy with their own appearance.
“The worst case I am aware of is a man who did a DIY nose job,” Dr. Veale said. “He pushed a chisel up his nose and then replaced the cartilage he had taken off with a chicken bone.”
The people who end up doing DIY cosmetic surgery are often unable to afford to go to a proper cosmetic surgeon, hence their attempts to do their own. People – mainly women – often feel intense pressure to look beautiful all the time with the media often focusing on the outward appearance of stars. Without the money to pay for proper surgery, some can turn to these desperate measures.
Delegates at the conference have called on cosmetic surgeons to make greater use of psychologists before surgery. This would ensure that patients with severe body-image disorders are not subjected to unnecessary operations.
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OMG, DIY cosmetic surgery? Now, I’ve heard it all. First, I read about “boob jobs” where the winner is announced by a porn star, and now this. I absolutely understand the need to, as you say, “enhance and improve” one’s appearance because, although I’m personally not a surgeon, I work with a breast augmentation surgeon in Indiana, but come one people! I know it’s about the body, but please use your brains. If it’s free, you’re probably going to get what you pay for (there’s a reason it has to be given away). And have you ever tried to give yourself a haircut? Probably didn’t work out as you had hoped. This is surgery. It’s elective, but please, if you feel like your life might be improved with cosmetic surgery, save up, investigate financing options, or simply talk with a surgeon about spreading out the payments. You’ll be glad you did.
Actually those who have DIY surgery are probable sufferers of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. The best I can describe their day to day experience is.. extreme mental torture. The suicide rate of BDD sufferers is the highest of all mental illnesses, 45 times the average. They often become housebound, drop out of school because of the fear (most sufferers I have met are intelligent, which makes it a tragic waste) and relationships become difficult as they cannot love themselves, let alone another. I know this because, mainly, I am one of them. It ruined my life.
Those words could have been taken right out of my mouth. My husband tells me all the time that I look lovely, but it doesn’t matter how much I know he means it,it’s my opinion of myself that overrules anything he says. I don’t like the way I look(not any part of me), so then I think that my husband couldn’t possibly really like looking at me, and so I have distanced myself from him for many years.