People.com has an article that deals with why exactly people are addicted to plastic surgery, and the psychological reasons as well. This article is titled, Obsessed with plastic surgery, and can be found at, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20062412,00.html.This article has doctors as the expertise and also has stories of people who are obviously addicted to plastic surgery. "It's not an official diagnosis," says Dr. Katharine Phillips, a psychiatrist at Rhode Island's Butler Hospital body image program. "But certainly patients can feel very driven to get cosmetic procedures; that it is their only hope." Dr. Katharine Phillips gives her two sense by saying that there is not an official term and fully developed research done on plastic surgery addiction, but there definitely are patients that seem to be addicted. A story this article also featured was, "There's nothing in the Beverly Hills city charter that says residents have to have cosmetic surgery, but tell that to a beauty school grad from rural Pennsylvania who found himself working in an upscale salon there. Twenty years ago, when Steve Erhardt took a job with celebrity stylist José Eber, "I saw the [cosmetic] work up close in my chair," he recalls. "Everyone was so beautiful. I wanted to be beautiful too." Getting a client's recommendation for a surgeon, he began with a nose job—making it narrower with a shorter tip—and had a cleft put into his chin. Pleased with the results, he returned to the same doctor within a few years for an eye lift. The surgeon, Erhardt says, "told me to go away and come back in 10 years." He found a more willing surgeon in Dr. Nikolas Chugay, a Beverly Hills-based osteopath certified in cosmetic surgery. In the last dozen years, says Chugay, who has sometimes imposed a waiting period on Erhardt but never turned him away for any of his 30 surgeries, "we've done just about everything on him. He's very smart about giving himself time to heal." Still, even strangers approach Erhardt to implore him to stop having plastic surgery. His family, says Erhardt, who has run his own salon in Hollywood since 1999, "doesn't want to talk about it. Maybe I'm a little obsessed, but I'm just trying to look presentable." Go below the surface, however, and Erhardt admits that he tends to get work done when he's lost someone. "When my grandmother and stepsister died in a plane crash, I had a face lift. My mother just died, and I think I'll get a cheek lift. The world just cannot see me this down. I don't want to look sad and old." This story illustrates a person with plastic surgery addiction, and how their mindset is, always wanted something bigger and better or more younger and fresh looking.
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