Body Image Obsession => Higher Suicide Risk
Don't forget to tell the people you care about how beautiful they are to you!
"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with 'body dysmorphic disorder' are 45 times more likely to commit suicide than people in the general population, a new study shows.
The findings underscore the importance of recognizing and treating this 'often secretive' psychiatric disorder, Dr. Katherine A. Phillips, the study's co-author, told Reuters Health.
Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, have a distorted body image and think obsessively about their appearance, often for hours a day, explained Phillips, who is at Butler Hospital and Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island.
The disorder frequently leads to self-loathing and social isolation, she added. It is not uncommon for people with BDD to tell no one about their condition, even a spouse or very close friends."
Suicide risk high with body image obsession | Health | Reuters.com
2 Comments:
And this "disorder" is a personal problem, not something brought on by psychological training and focus on imasge by every media outlet out there for the last three generations, effecting parents, and then passed down to the children through not only the media and their peers, but also their parents, right?
Pshaw! Stupid psychaitrists need to stop "discovering" new "disorders so they can push more drugs, and start stating the real reason for things like "BDD", the complete societal saturation of what a "good" body is so that maybe we can cure the illness instead of treating the symptoms.
But modern medecine isn't about curing anything. What was I thinking? There's no profit in having patients NOT come back to the office! *sigh*
the health and beauty industry (not to mention the plastic surgeons of the world) is really having a field day playing with our body images...
while every society has its standards of beauty, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to fit the mold. mother nature is all about variety. for those of us born w/ a body or features that don't fit the times, well...we need to find a way to keep it in perspective.
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