Body Dysmorphic Disorders

Sex, Drugs, Technology, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder. What do these four important words have in common? These four words fall into a category known as addiction. As teens get older they start to experience Sex addiction, Drug addiction, Technology addiction, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Each addiction can cause a teen to go through different behaviors and can cause different effects on the teenage body. The roughest addiction that teens go through is sex addiction, so, let’s start with that. Sex addictions in teenagers are a hard thing to stop due to treatments and support from family and friends. Back then, teens were limited to what they were allowed to listen to or watch. As for today, teens are no longer limited to what they can listen …show more content…
This addiction can be caused by a peer who has influenced the teen into technology by a game or by chatting. There are other causes of having a technology addiction; weight gain or weight loss, Carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches, neck and back pains, and dry, red eyes. These are causes of watching TV or playing video games for a long period of time. Now there are effects to having a technology addiction; such as teen behavior, Isolation, Obesity, Depression, Poor sleeping habits, and etc. Teens can be affected by playing too many video games all the time along with watching too much TV. These effects could be terrible for teens because it can cause teens to go crazy. Teens can choose to play video games all day every day, or they can choose to take care of their body and limit themselves to what they play or watch. Solutions to teen technology addiction can come in handy when a teen becomes anti- social. To solve teen technology addiction, teens could be limited to what they do, go more outside, take the TV out of the teens room, and etc. If parents did all of these things, they are bound to help their teen become for active and social. The more teens are active and social, the more teens will become less