Our health is our weapon towards achieving whatever we want in our life. However, many people just run after money and success so much that they forget to take care of their health. Being healthy should be a part of your success, at least for yourself, no matter others appreciate it or not. But, the overpowering junk food of today’s generation is taking people more towards obesity rather than healthy life.
Obesity is a health condition that is not only physical but mental as well. Being obese does not only mean you are fat, but it also means that you have psychological disturbances that need to be resolved properly. There also exist many psychological symptoms in obesity that result in giving a lot of mental stress and pain to the people.
What role does Psychology play in Obesity:-
Even if the appearance of obesity is on our body, the root cause of the same is inside our brains. If your psychological stability is disturbed from time to time, then that gives a bad impact on your body and you start getting attracted to obesity.
That is why there exist a lot of small and big factors or symptoms that prove accurate coordination or relation between psychology and obese conditions.
Psychological Factors in Obesity:-
There exist some important psychological factors in obesity that distinguishes from the normal behavior of people and proves that the respective person has become obese. Some of these factors can be listed in detail as follows–
Having Night Eating Syndrome is a Psychological Signal:
When talking about mental illness and obesity, one of the most important aspects comes into the picture. This is nothing but a syndrome that causes people to eat heavy food at midnight hours. This is unusual behavior for the side of humans and is psychological. If people are awake at night, then they experience this syndrome and such people usually prefer sweet and starch-rich items for resolving their night-eating cravings.
Weak Emotional Health leads to Overeating:
People who are having weak emotional health, either permanent or circumstantial, suffer from overeating habits and eventually, increase their obesity to a huge extent. For the same reason, people who have obesity are usually detected to have less mental strength as compared to the people who are obesity-free.
Depression increases Obesity:
Depression usually leads to either overeating or undereating in people. The people who start undereating experience a sudden collapse in their physical strength while the people who start overeating get more prone to obesity. In this way, there exists yet another connection between psychological health and obesity in people.
All the above factors make people notice the psychological functioning of obese as well as normal people and make the difference highlighted in front of them.
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