What term means “thinking that you're someone you were years ago”?
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I am looking for a term to describe when someone's mindset is fixated to a mindset they used to adopt at a younger age.
Here is a little back story. I used to be around 18 stone, very overweight. I managed to lose all the fat but, mentally, I still think of myself as that same 'overweight' person. I forget that I am "slim"now. What's the term for this?
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I am looking for a term to describe when someone's mindset is fixated to a mindset they used to adopt at a younger age.
Here is a little back story. I used to be around 18 stone, very overweight. I managed to lose all the fat but, mentally, I still think of myself as that same 'overweight' person. I forget that I am "slim"now. What's the term for this?
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a sample sentence please
– lbf
May 7 at 2:52
PerhapsIllusion or oblivion? If you provide a sample sentence with a blank, you may get more accurate answers.
– mahmud koya
May 7 at 6:24
I think it's called negative body image, or perhaps it's just "persistent" body image that hasn't updated or adapted to the new reality. Those terms might at least get you to some of the web pages that talk about this situation. There are Stack Exchange Groups on Psychology, Health, and Fitness (3 different ones), all which may know more than we do here.
– Xanne
May 7 at 8:24
As in a Dorian Gray?
– DJohnson
May 7 at 11:09
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I am looking for a term to describe when someone's mindset is fixated to a mindset they used to adopt at a younger age.
Here is a little back story. I used to be around 18 stone, very overweight. I managed to lose all the fat but, mentally, I still think of myself as that same 'overweight' person. I forget that I am "slim"now. What's the term for this?
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edited May 7 at 11:00
Vincent Lam
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asked May 7 at 2:27
Lewis Regan
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I am looking for a term to describe when someone's mindset is fixated to a mindset they used to adopt at a younger age.
Here is a little back story. I used to be around 18 stone, very overweight. I managed to lose all the fat but, mentally, I still think of myself as that same 'overweight' person. I forget that I am "slim"now. What's the term for this?
single-word-requests word-choice
single-word-requests word-choice
edited May 7 at 11:00
Vincent Lam
415
asked May 7 at 2:27
Lewis Regan
41
edited May 7 at 11:00
Vincent Lam
415
asked May 7 at 2:27
Lewis Regan
41
edited May 7 at 11:00
Vincent Lam
415
edited May 7 at 11:00
Vincent Lam
415
edited May 7 at 11:00
Vincent Lam
415
415
asked May 7 at 2:27
Lewis Regan
41
asked May 7 at 2:27
Lewis Regan
41
asked May 7 at 2:27
Lewis Regan
41
41
2
a sample sentence please
– lbf
May 7 at 2:52
PerhapsIllusion or oblivion? If you provide a sample sentence with a blank, you may get more accurate answers.
– mahmud koya
May 7 at 6:24
I think it's called negative body image, or perhaps it's just "persistent" body image that hasn't updated or adapted to the new reality. Those terms might at least get you to some of the web pages that talk about this situation. There are Stack Exchange Groups on Psychology, Health, and Fitness (3 different ones), all which may know more than we do here.
– Xanne
May 7 at 8:24
As in a Dorian Gray?
– DJohnson
May 7 at 11:09
add a comment |
2
a sample sentence please
– lbf
May 7 at 2:52
PerhapsIllusion or oblivion? If you provide a sample sentence with a blank, you may get more accurate answers.
– mahmud koya
May 7 at 6:24
I think it's called negative body image, or perhaps it's just "persistent" body image that hasn't updated or adapted to the new reality. Those terms might at least get you to some of the web pages that talk about this situation. There are Stack Exchange Groups on Psychology, Health, and Fitness (3 different ones), all which may know more than we do here.
– Xanne
May 7 at 8:24
As in a Dorian Gray?
– DJohnson
May 7 at 11:09
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2
a sample sentence please
– lbf
May 7 at 2:52
a sample sentence please
– lbf
May 7 at 2:52
PerhapsIllusion or oblivion? If you provide a sample sentence with a blank, you may get more accurate answers.
– mahmud koya
May 7 at 6:24
PerhapsIllusion or oblivion? If you provide a sample sentence with a blank, you may get more accurate answers.
– mahmud koya
May 7 at 6:24
I think it's called negative body image, or perhaps it's just "persistent" body image that hasn't updated or adapted to the new reality. Those terms might at least get you to some of the web pages that talk about this situation. There are Stack Exchange Groups on Psychology, Health, and Fitness (3 different ones), all which may know more than we do here.
– Xanne
May 7 at 8:24
I think it's called negative body image, or perhaps it's just "persistent" body image that hasn't updated or adapted to the new reality. Those terms might at least get you to some of the web pages that talk about this situation. There are Stack Exchange Groups on Psychology, Health, and Fitness (3 different ones), all which may know more than we do here.
– Xanne
May 7 at 8:24
As in a Dorian Gray?
– DJohnson
May 7 at 11:09
As in a Dorian Gray?
– DJohnson
May 7 at 11:09
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A fixation in a technical(not professional) sense of the word;
Psychoanalysis:
a partial arrest of emotional and instinctual development at an early point
in life, due to a severe traumatic experience or an overwhelming gratification.
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If you are delusional about your own body appearance, body dysmorphic disorder is the term you're looking for.
Synonyms: body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome, dysmorphophobia
Specialty: Psychiatry
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix their dysmorphic part on their person. In BDD's delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. If the flaw is actual, its importance is severely exaggerated. Either way, thoughts about the dysmorphia are pervasive and intrusive, occupying up to several hours a day or more. The DSM-5 categorizes BDD in the obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and distinguishes it from anorexia nervosa.
BDD is estimated to affect up to 2.4% of the population. It usually starts during adolescence and affects both men and women. The BDD subtype muscle dysmorphia, perceiving the body as too small, affects mostly males. Besides thinking about it, one repetitively checks and compares the perceived flaw, and can adopt unusual routines to avoid social contact that exposes it. Fearing the stigma of vanity, one usually hides the preoccupation. Commonly unsuspected even by psychiatrists, BDD has been underdiagnosed. Severely impairing quality of life via educational and occupational dysfunction and social isolation, BDD has high rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
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Centaurus
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This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
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has-been
NOUN ˈhazbiːnˈhæz ˌbɪn
informal
A person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.
a political has-been
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
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This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
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This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
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A fixation in a technical(not professional) sense of the word;
Psychoanalysis:
a partial arrest of emotional and instinctual development at an early point
in life, due to a severe traumatic experience or an overwhelming gratification.
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
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A fixation in a technical(not professional) sense of the word;
Psychoanalysis:
a partial arrest of emotional and instinctual development at an early point
in life, due to a severe traumatic experience or an overwhelming gratification.
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
add a comment |
up vote
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up vote
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A fixation in a technical(not professional) sense of the word;
Psychoanalysis:
a partial arrest of emotional and instinctual development at an early point
in life, due to a severe traumatic experience or an overwhelming gratification.
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
A fixation in a technical(not professional) sense of the word;
Psychoanalysis:
a partial arrest of emotional and instinctual development at an early point
in life, due to a severe traumatic experience or an overwhelming gratification.
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
answered May 7 at 10:38
Vincent Lam
415
415
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If you are delusional about your own body appearance, body dysmorphic disorder is the term you're looking for.
Synonyms: body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome, dysmorphophobia
Specialty: Psychiatry
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix their dysmorphic part on their person. In BDD's delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. If the flaw is actual, its importance is severely exaggerated. Either way, thoughts about the dysmorphia are pervasive and intrusive, occupying up to several hours a day or more. The DSM-5 categorizes BDD in the obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and distinguishes it from anorexia nervosa.
BDD is estimated to affect up to 2.4% of the population. It usually starts during adolescence and affects both men and women. The BDD subtype muscle dysmorphia, perceiving the body as too small, affects mostly males. Besides thinking about it, one repetitively checks and compares the perceived flaw, and can adopt unusual routines to avoid social contact that exposes it. Fearing the stigma of vanity, one usually hides the preoccupation. Commonly unsuspected even by psychiatrists, BDD has been underdiagnosed. Severely impairing quality of life via educational and occupational dysfunction and social isolation, BDD has high rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
From Wikipedia
answered Oct 4 at 21:54
Centaurus
37.5k27120241
This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
add a comment |
up vote
0
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If you are delusional about your own body appearance, body dysmorphic disorder is the term you're looking for.
Synonyms: body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome, dysmorphophobia
Specialty: Psychiatry
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix their dysmorphic part on their person. In BDD's delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. If the flaw is actual, its importance is severely exaggerated. Either way, thoughts about the dysmorphia are pervasive and intrusive, occupying up to several hours a day or more. The DSM-5 categorizes BDD in the obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and distinguishes it from anorexia nervosa.
BDD is estimated to affect up to 2.4% of the population. It usually starts during adolescence and affects both men and women. The BDD subtype muscle dysmorphia, perceiving the body as too small, affects mostly males. Besides thinking about it, one repetitively checks and compares the perceived flaw, and can adopt unusual routines to avoid social contact that exposes it. Fearing the stigma of vanity, one usually hides the preoccupation. Commonly unsuspected even by psychiatrists, BDD has been underdiagnosed. Severely impairing quality of life via educational and occupational dysfunction and social isolation, BDD has high rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
From Wikipedia
answered Oct 4 at 21:54
Centaurus
37.5k27120241
This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
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If you are delusional about your own body appearance, body dysmorphic disorder is the term you're looking for.
Synonyms: body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome, dysmorphophobia
Specialty: Psychiatry
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix their dysmorphic part on their person. In BDD's delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. If the flaw is actual, its importance is severely exaggerated. Either way, thoughts about the dysmorphia are pervasive and intrusive, occupying up to several hours a day or more. The DSM-5 categorizes BDD in the obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and distinguishes it from anorexia nervosa.
BDD is estimated to affect up to 2.4% of the population. It usually starts during adolescence and affects both men and women. The BDD subtype muscle dysmorphia, perceiving the body as too small, affects mostly males. Besides thinking about it, one repetitively checks and compares the perceived flaw, and can adopt unusual routines to avoid social contact that exposes it. Fearing the stigma of vanity, one usually hides the preoccupation. Commonly unsuspected even by psychiatrists, BDD has been underdiagnosed. Severely impairing quality of life via educational and occupational dysfunction and social isolation, BDD has high rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
From Wikipedia
answered Oct 4 at 21:54
Centaurus
37.5k27120241
If you are delusional about your own body appearance, body dysmorphic disorder is the term you're looking for.
Synonyms: body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome, dysmorphophobia
Specialty: Psychiatry
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix their dysmorphic part on their person. In BDD's delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. If the flaw is actual, its importance is severely exaggerated. Either way, thoughts about the dysmorphia are pervasive and intrusive, occupying up to several hours a day or more. The DSM-5 categorizes BDD in the obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and distinguishes it from anorexia nervosa.
BDD is estimated to affect up to 2.4% of the population. It usually starts during adolescence and affects both men and women. The BDD subtype muscle dysmorphia, perceiving the body as too small, affects mostly males. Besides thinking about it, one repetitively checks and compares the perceived flaw, and can adopt unusual routines to avoid social contact that exposes it. Fearing the stigma of vanity, one usually hides the preoccupation. Commonly unsuspected even by psychiatrists, BDD has been underdiagnosed. Severely impairing quality of life via educational and occupational dysfunction and social isolation, BDD has high rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
From Wikipedia
answered Oct 4 at 21:54
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answered Oct 4 at 21:54
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answered Oct 4 at 21:54
Centaurus
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answered Oct 4 at 21:54
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This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
add a comment |
This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
This is the cause behind the example given in the question, but it’s not really an answer to the underlying question. The weight-based story was just one example; it could have been someone who is a celebrated professor, but still feels like a first-year student who knows nothing; or someone who used to be a top-level sportsman and still plays as if he were, even though he’s clearly nowhere near his old level.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
@JanusBahsJacquet I totally agree with you. I thought it might help, though, as there seems to be no phrase to cover all possibilities.
– Centaurus
Nov 4 at 12:31
add a comment |
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has-been
NOUN ˈhazbiːnˈhæz ˌbɪn
informal
A person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.
a political has-been
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
1
This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
Sep 4 at 20:03
This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:48
add a comment |
up vote
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has-been
NOUN ˈhazbiːnˈhæz ˌbɪn
informal
A person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.
a political has-been
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
1
This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
Sep 4 at 20:03
This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:48
add a comment |
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has-been
NOUN ˈhazbiːnˈhæz ˌbɪn
informal
A person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.
a political has-been
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
has-been
NOUN ˈhazbiːnˈhæz ˌbɪn
informal
A person or thing considered to be outmoded or no longer of any significance.
a political has-been
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
answered Sep 4 at 18:56
reza mortezapour
484
484
1
This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
Sep 4 at 20:03
This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:48
add a comment |
1
This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
Sep 4 at 20:03
This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:48
1
1
This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
Sep 4 at 20:03
This doesn't fit OP's intention at all.
– only_pro
Sep 4 at 20:03
This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:48
This means something completely different.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Nov 3 at 23:48
add a comment |
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a sample sentence please
– lbf
May 7 at 2:52
PerhapsIllusion or oblivion? If you provide a sample sentence with a blank, you may get more accurate answers.
– mahmud koya
May 7 at 6:24
I think it's called negative body image, or perhaps it's just "persistent" body image that hasn't updated or adapted to the new reality. Those terms might at least get you to some of the web pages that talk about this situation. There are Stack Exchange Groups on Psychology, Health, and Fitness (3 different ones), all which may know more than we do here.
– Xanne
May 7 at 8:24
As in a Dorian Gray?
– DJohnson
May 7 at 11:09