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Obesophobia

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Obesophobia or Pocrescophobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phobia, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear" and obeso meaning "fat") is a persistent, abnormal fear of gaining weight, particularly in cultures that value thinness. This phobia was listed as a rare disease by the Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.Individuals with this phobia originally start with a desire to lose weight which turns into a compulsive desire to avoid all things that could result in weight gain. The more these things are avoided, the more they are feared. A habit of avoidance can lead to a sense of failure if weight is gained. Gaining weight is seen as a failure to those with Obesophobia and therefore they experience an abnormal fear toward anything that will cause them to fail. Obesophobia is also known as weight phobia, a term created by Arthur H. Crisp regarding perceptions that sufferers of anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by an obsessive fear of gaining weight, may have regarding weight gain. Some psychologists (Hsu & Lee, 1993) have stated that a subject having weight phobia is a necessary precursor for a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa.

English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesophobia

Spanish wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesofobia