When an innocent habit has serious consequences
A friend here admitted to me that she spent several hours on the channel with a video dedicated to acne pressure. It was disgusting, pleasant, embarrassing and curious at the same time.
- Doctor, am I sick?
How to say.
The famous doctor Sandra Lee, who is called "Doctor Pimple" and who is famous for squeezing the volcanic formations of her patients on camera, has more than 7 million subscribers. And the total number of views of these videos exceeds 1 billion.
While I was looking for a link to her channel, also stuck on these rollers.
But why do you like it so much?
We remember that in adolescence, the most important covenant that our parents gave us is don't pick your face?
And we still crushed everything that gagged, with a mixture of disgust and... pleasure.
Why are we doing this?
- Psychologically, we regard a pimple as a kind of negative manifestation, and when we get rid of it, we not only put the body and skin in order, but also we increase our own defense.
- Popping acne causes a sense of control over your body. Indeed, in this process, the action itself is important, not the result. In response to it, a hormone and neurotransmitter begins to be produced. dopamine. It is always produced in response to pleasure and is used by our body to consolidate the result.
Squeezing acne yourself is understandable. But why do we like to watch others do it?
- Man as a highly intelligent creature can easily project the experience of others on his own. Therefore, if you are lucky not to get your own comedones, then watching others get rid of volcanic formations is safe experience. Well, it's like how men play dances - like a participant in hostilities, and did not get up from the couch. We get experience without sacrifice.
Another side of this process is disgust and disgust. If a person can watch such a video to the end, then through overcoming himself he also receives a portion of dopamine, that is, pleasure and self-esteem.
There is also a manifestation in this self-survival instinct: after all, skin diseases are directly related to the risk of infection and death. Observing the process of emptying abscesses, anxiety can decrease in a person, and in fact increased anxiety is a very big modern problem.
Also, people are used to the demonstration healthy and beautiful bodies and clear skin, and in the videos with squeezing acne, you can see the reflection of your own problems. Thus, it helps body positive messages about your body - you are not the only one so imperfect.
When does it already become a disease?
But not always the passion for acne pressure is a manifestation of the innocent sides of our psyche. There is a mental disorder - dermatillomania, obsession with acne or other skin problems. It affects about 5% of the population.
A person experiences pleasure from pressure, picking at the skin, and if there are no acne, then the person tears apart the healed wounds, dried skin on the lips, and so on. Dermatillomania is often a manifestation obsessive compulsive disorder: the person cannot stop. And here you cannot do without the help of a psychotherapist.
But if you don't suffer from it, then a little video of acne pressure won't hurt you. Let it be your guilty pleasure.
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