The Story about Zax - Essay Example

Zax has gone through a lot of psychological trauma in the last six years since when his body started to transform from a child’s to an adult’s. It was the start of their teenage when he started to notice his chest grow larger than it should. His class-fellows and friends called him everything from a girl to an aunt. The condition has negatively affected Zax’s self-esteem. This is the prime reason he has had a very small circle of friends ever since the onset of his teenage. Zax wants to change the condition and is ready to do whatever it takes to come out of the web he has concocted around himself out of the sheer consciousness of his chest.

Zax is too shy to visit a doctor with his family to discuss the condition. While his manboobs are a big concern for the people outside his home, they seem to be invisible to his immediate family. Zax really has nobody to be psychologically counselled from. He searches the condition over the Internet and learns that this is a condition called ‘gynecomastia’. Contrary to his expectations, he finds that gynecomastia is increasingly becoming a major concern among men, and many men suffer from the condition at least at some point in their life.

Zax explores the causes of and details about gynecomastia and learns that having gynecomastia makes an individual no less of a man biologically than the men who do not have gynecomastia. He finds out that there are no major causes of gynecomastia and that it can be acquired by any man, though certain factors like consuming steroids can optimize its chances of occurrence. Zax also finds out that the condition is treatable through liposuction or surgery and once treated, it never comes back.Now that he has learned the biology of the condition, Zax feels confident about sharing the problem with his parents.

He convinces his parents to let him undertake surgery. The family visits a surgeon, and the surgeon recommends liposuction to treat Zax’s gynecomastia. The whole procedure is completed in 45 minutes two days later, and Zax is relieved from his biggest problem in life. Zax learns how much trauma some boys go through just because of their lack of knowledge about their condition and its treatment. Now that he has the desired shape, he can proudly take off his shirt in public for swimming.