Mental health is an issue that, in recent years, has gone from being taken lightly to being considered the main and essential element of our lives. The conditions that our brain and body can have as a result of stress, poor diet and a bad environment at home or at work. Depression and anxiety are two of the best known, and they can take forms that are very visible to others.
This is the case shown by the model and influencer Lucía Rivera, daughter of Cayetano Rivera and Blanca Romero. The young woman has shared through an Instagram story some images of her back, scratched and scratched in different places. You can also distinguish some small rashes as a result of her actions, which according to her words she has been doing at night for some time without realizing it. The photograph was accompanied by a short explanation.
“Today I was telling a friend that when I think I control my anxiety it always comes out the other way. Now he has taken to scratching myself at night (without realizing it) and doing these stupid things to my body. The truth is that I have had two difficult days and that is how my head has reacted. And the truth is that in the photos it is not even half valued. He is tired and desperate at times. I send a hug to those of you who live with this like me,” he said in his profile.
This is not the first time that Rivera has spoken about her problems, after publishing a letter to Cosmopolitan magazine as an “exercise in self-analysis” about her eating disorder (ED). “I remember that, when you were growing up, you would look down, and see how the ground was getting further and further away. Until one day, you noticed something else: your legs. Suddenly, they were full of errors.”
“You became obsessed with finding a way to change them, because for you, they were what many others had told you: "chopsticks, spaghetti...", so you went to clothing stores looking for the smallest sizes, you tried on absolutely all the pants and, finally, you got the one that made you curvier,” she expressed, also telling how she started taking “protein shakes” with the intention of filling them out and not feeling so bad.
“I thought about it a lot, when I published the book I felt a horrible invasion of my privacy. I would have appreciated if the media treated it without sensationalism. But I know it's a lot to ask. After hours of thinking I told myself, they are going to criticize me anyway and the people who need to read this are not guilty of anything. So, I only ask one thing of you: NEVER OPINION ABOUT ANYONE'S BODY,” he expressed in this regard on his Instagram profile.
