PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT IN OBESITY
The main cause of obesity resulting from eating disorders is psychological disorders. The aim of the psychological treatment part of obesity treatment is to find and solve this problem.
In addition to its physical causes, obesity also occurs due to psychological factors and is also known to be linked to impulsive eating. After all, eating is a form of behavior. Until the beginning of our century, the main mechanism in human behavior was defined as "impulse".
It was known that impulses played a driving role in behavior, and it was argued that these behaviors could not be learned.
However, extensive research has been conducted. and experiments show that behaviors that occur as a result of impulses are learned and therefore impulses can be controlled in the behavioral dimension.
Providing behavioral changes in obese individuals is the most important element of treatment. The individual's behavior must be rearranged in order to continue the diet and sports programs applied, to ensure their permanence and to make them a lifestyle. The causes of old undesirable behavior patterns are examined in detail during the psychotherapy process. Traumatic situations that occurred in the person are resolved and useless habits from childhood are replaced with new useful behavioral patterns. As with all psychotherapy processes, this journey also requires volunteering. The obese individual's awareness of the seriousness of his condition and awareness that the problem is not just visual can be considered a start.
Cognitive-behavioral therapies and hypnotherapy are used to change behavior. Cognitive-behavioral therapy can be summarized as catching the individual's thinking errors, organizing his/her mental structure, and putting this cognitive material into practice with behaviors. Hypnotherapy is used as an aid to this treatment, to plant cognitive input deeper through suggestion and to clear useless data in the subconscious. Individuals who turn to food to cope with stress are taught alternative stress coping techniques during the psychotherapy process. Permanence is achieved by supporting useful habits with desired behaviors.
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