Art by :Daniel Martin
waking up in the morning, I go straight to the mirror to check my morning flat stomach. I’m constantly measuring myself and avoiding foods that are supposed to make you fat in my culture. I’m tired of the way the media depicts what F.A.T is meant to stand for. getting the persistent feeling that I’m not good enough, and how everyone is praising and leaning towards the Victoria Secret body ideal kind
Am I too short, too long? Too curvy ? or too skinny/Googling how to get rid of my hardly visible cellulite in time for my beach day.
As if it were a loop, endless exercise to appear appropriate to society and to fit its standards.
In this day and age, body dysmorphia is troubling the next generation/kids/adults more than ever before.
You see, Social media has had a tremendous impact on people with body dysmorphia. It perceives “The Ideal type” that does not exist within each person. People being praised and liked based on How there portrayed as.” Here are the most celebs with the perfectly symmetrical faces,” the average views would be around 5–10 million.
Where living in a constant “Perfectionism” lie that triggers us.
The syndrome of “self-perceived ugliness” or “self-imagined ugliness” is known as Body Dysphoric Disorder. It’s often thought to be a distressing fixation on one or more physical “defects.”
Although I might have added a little glimpse of my past body dysmorphia phase, it’s physically and mentally hard to cope with. It messes with your mind when truly you are perfect just the way you are. Body dysmorphia tricks you and beats you up, leaving you mentally exhausted and drained emotionally with trying to fit in with what looks perfect and what doesn’t.
Body dysmorphia can be classified in a variety of forms and is not solely based on one source of information.
