Body Image Effects
Body images is how you see yourself. It’s what you believe about your appearance. Body image is how you feel about yourself. How you feel about your height, the shape of your body, and your weight. And it’s how you feel in your body. There are negative and positive body images. Some people can look at social media post and not feel any different about themselves. This is then known as positive body image. But other girls and guys are less fortunate when it comes to seeing a model on the internet. A lot of them will then develop an eating disorder, they can suffer from depression, and sometimes they will change the way their body looks so they fit the world’s idea of “perfect”.
Self-image discrepancies show up when individuals have conflict …show more content…
The person will find alternate ways to make them seem taller, like by where shoes that have a higher platform. The roles can also be reversed. Teens will where shoes that don’t have very tall platforms so they seem an average height, because they already think they’re too tall. They can also struggle with their weight by saying they’re too fat or too skinny. People that think they’re heavier weight will wear baggy clothes so it doesn’t draw attention to their imperfections. These people will then have conflicts with the shape of their body. People who have a harder time losing weight will think they don’t look good because they have more defined curves, but a skinner person, on the other hand, will think they look like a pencil walking down the street because they have no curves at all. Both body shapes can envy what the other one has, and dream to have the ‘thickness’ of the other’s thighs (Heron 2).
Young teens can suffer from eating disorders from developing a problem with their body image. This then causes the teens to not eat enough or eat too much. Eating disorders play a big role in the body image discrepancies because the person will think they are too fat so they stop eating. This then cause the stomach to shrink and more stress will be put on the human body. Situation roles can also be reversed in this situation as well. The person can think they are too skinny so they eat enough to feed a family of four. They can gain up to one hundred pounds or more (Dittmar
Self-image discrepancies show up when individuals have conflict …show more content…
The person will find alternate ways to make them seem taller, like by where shoes that have a higher platform. The roles can also be reversed. Teens will where shoes that don’t have very tall platforms so they seem an average height, because they already think they’re too tall. They can also struggle with their weight by saying they’re too fat or too skinny. People that think they’re heavier weight will wear baggy clothes so it doesn’t draw attention to their imperfections. These people will then have conflicts with the shape of their body. People who have a harder time losing weight will think they don’t look good because they have more defined curves, but a skinner person, on the other hand, will think they look like a pencil walking down the street because they have no curves at all. Both body shapes can envy what the other one has, and dream to have the ‘thickness’ of the other’s thighs (Heron 2).
Young teens can suffer from eating disorders from developing a problem with their body image. This then causes the teens to not eat enough or eat too much. Eating disorders play a big role in the body image discrepancies because the person will think they are too fat so they stop eating. This then cause the stomach to shrink and more stress will be put on the human body. Situation roles can also be reversed in this situation as well. The person can think they are too skinny so they eat enough to feed a family of four. They can gain up to one hundred pounds or more (Dittmar