appearance

With origin in the word in Latin aspectus, the concept of appearance refers to the appearance from subjects and objects that can be captured through vision. For example: "That man looks very misaligned.", "Grandpa's jovial appearance is amazing", "The river looks bad, we better not swim here".

The appearance or physical appearance It is a highly valued issue in today's society, due to the existence of stereotyped canons of beauty that tend to leave out a large part of the population, a situation that triggers pressures, internal conflicts and psychological disorders. This obligation to look good and look good according to social opinions can lead to disorders such as bulimia wave anorexy.

On the other hand, the aspect allows to highlight the facet or the hue of a certain thing: "Today we are going to talk about the most important aspects of this artist's pictorial work", "The president's speech can be analyzed from several different aspects".

In the field of astronomy, the notion of aspect is used to describe the phases and the eventual condition of two stars with respect to the celestial houses where they are located. In this sense, it refers to the movement of planets in the celestial sphere.

On linguistics, the grammatical aspect It is the property that allows to show the internal development of a certain verbal action. It is a grammatical category that reveals whether or not the verb has concluded at the moment of enunciation.

It is important to differentiate between the grammatical aspect and the weather. This signals the moment that something happens in relation to everything else. The aspect, on the other hand, is the internal time of the action, the phase of development or its modification.

In the field of image and video, the aspect ratio is obtained from the ratio of the width to the height. The two most common values ​​in the home consumer environment are 4: 3 and 16: 9. The first corresponds to the format of the most popular televisions and monitors before the era of high definition; they are rectangular, but they are very close to being square. The second nomenclature is directly linked to content on DVD and Blu-ray, and is often called panoramic; in this case, the shape is clearly rectangular, being considerably wider than it is tall (almost double).

Body dysmorphic disorder

Also know as dysmorphophobiaIt is a very serious disorder that, despite affecting many people, is practically unknown. Basically, it consists of a distorted perception of one's appearance, which leads the person to believe they are physically unpleasant. However, the nuances of this disease are innumerable, as well as the severity and consequences.

In general, the problem begins with a feature particular physical or a part of the body that is so hideous in the eyes of the sick person, which lead him to think that he cannot be shown in public with this defect, since that would not generate more than mockery, rejection by those to whom he felt sexually attracted and constant observation.

Those who suffer from this disease, speak of themselves as monsters, and generally fear exposure in public places, avoid halogen lights, try to cover parts of their Body that they consider defective and lead a conflictive sexual life, when they do not live in absolute chastity. In the most severe cases, dysmorphophobes undergo numerous plastic surgeries in order to correct their defects, but they never succeed; Their vision of themselves and that aspect of themselves that they do not like is so negative that the solution does not consist in a material modification, but in a change in mental mechanisms.