Body Image Effects On Society

If everything perfect and there was nothing left to do there would be no point in life. The journey of life is what shapes and defines us. Everything has an effect on us whether we realize it or not, and how we see ourselves has a huge impact on our health and personality. Body image plays a huge role in what controls people: therefore how one sees one’s self is how that person lives.
Body image is an individual’s view: love, hate, and criticism of his or her body. According to National Eating Disorders.Org, “Body image is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind” (Neda, 1). For most people, the biggest motivation to change their lifestyle or choices to match the body image “standards”. How
For example, not eating at all to try to lose thirty pounds, or to just keep losing pounds. Some say it is similar to the bodybuilder's addition to gaining muscle: one can never lose enough weight, and the new goal is ever elusive. Eating disorders kill a lot of people. Eating disorders cause people to forcefully throw up , giving them the possibility of rupturing their neck and die if they don’t starve to death first. According to the government, “Eating disorders are real, treatable medical illnesses” . . . and further, “Other symptoms can become life-threatening if a person does not receive treatment, which is reflected by anorexia being associated with the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder” (nimh pg
Many people would like this extra muscular size to intimidate others or to impress those of the opposite sex. School sports and demanding careers could tempt people to resort to steroids to quickly change their bodies to what they think would be best for them. Nimh also thought only women had body image problems learned about how steroids were a common issue for men struggling with body image. He reached out to his readers and what he found out was that men struggle with body image equally. She states, “As I learned of these men’s stories it became obvious to me that while girls typically worry about being too fat or too big, men are preoccupied with not being muscular enough” (Venessa pg1). The pressure to look a certain way separates us from reality and should not be controlled by standards. Steroids are by far one of the most tempting ways to achieve the perceived body image of muscularity and raw strength. It is easy to use them for immediate high results, ignoring risks like increased heart size and decreased sperm count later on. Peer pressure in school can easily spike someone’s interest in using steroids from being picked on and bullied by people who are naturally bigger in size. Steroids offer a way to level this playing field, which seems to be a necessity at the time but this is really just a symptom of poor body