Autoconfiança, autoestima e a percepção do self vivenciadas pós-cirurgia bariátrica

Abstract

Obesity is a chronic disease that involves several factors, and from it many other comorbidities occur. Performing bariatric surgery has become an alternative for many people who have not been successful with other weight loss treatments. However, this change raises psychological issues related to social behavior. The purpose of this article is to present how feelings of self-confidence, self-esteem and the perception of the Self are produced and discuss how bariatric surgery can alter the person's relationship with his verbal community and produce effects on his self-confidence, self-esteem and the perception of the Self. Works were selected that show the importance of the verbal community in the person, as being responsible for the construction of the identity of each person, once she turns to overweight, changing this aspect interferes with how she sees herself. Therefore, the importance of the behavior analyst psychologist to assist him in this perception of himself