The Dangers of Perfection
Perfection in an imperfect world, a cruel goal that can never be accomplished on this earth Yet everyday we strive to better ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally but to what point? A point where we refuse to question anything because we fear judgement, a point where we hide all emotions because we want no one to see past the ideal façade, a point where we starve ourselves and refuse meals because we are so consumed by this lie that flawlessness exists.
Our entire society is consumed, so far the 21st century has been focused on enhancing our lives but when it is causing young people to believe they cant be anything less then perfect, causing them to suffer from illnesses like Anorexia I would not call that an outstanding century.
Perfection, it is the standard by which everyone and everything is compared the measure that people struggle to achieve, the measure that some people are willing to do almost anything to achieve.
According to a recent study conducted by the Eating Disorders Organisation of Victoria it shows that 9% of the Australian population suffer with an eating disorder. That means approximately 2 million people and of that 2 million 90% are females between the ages of 13 and 24.
There are many different eating disorders that have become more common in the last 13 years such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, purging the list goes on.
In Britain alone hospital records show that since the 1990’s patients admitted for anorexia has increased by 40%.
Anorexia is described as a psychological illness where the person suffers with an obsessive fear of gaining weight and body image distortion causing them to deprive the body of food.
Sufferers are fed lies that skinny is perfect and so they refuse to be fed anything else.
The 1960’s curvy models have been replaced by the 21st century size zero girls, our TV shows display only the most dolled up of actors and even the commercial breaks are flooded with ads for gyms, diet pills,
Our entire society is consumed, so far the 21st century has been focused on enhancing our lives but when it is causing young people to believe they cant be anything less then perfect, causing them to suffer from illnesses like Anorexia I would not call that an outstanding century.
Perfection, it is the standard by which everyone and everything is compared the measure that people struggle to achieve, the measure that some people are willing to do almost anything to achieve.
According to a recent study conducted by the Eating Disorders Organisation of Victoria it shows that 9% of the Australian population suffer with an eating disorder. That means approximately 2 million people and of that 2 million 90% are females between the ages of 13 and 24.
There are many different eating disorders that have become more common in the last 13 years such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, purging the list goes on.
In Britain alone hospital records show that since the 1990’s patients admitted for anorexia has increased by 40%.
Anorexia is described as a psychological illness where the person suffers with an obsessive fear of gaining weight and body image distortion causing them to deprive the body of food.
Sufferers are fed lies that skinny is perfect and so they refuse to be fed anything else.
The 1960’s curvy models have been replaced by the 21st century size zero girls, our TV shows display only the most dolled up of actors and even the commercial breaks are flooded with ads for gyms, diet pills,