Negative Body Image Essay

In America, 92% of women have an issue with their body. Many girls worry about the pimples on their face, or the size of their jeans and compare themselves to what they see on TV, on social media, or in magazines. In America we always see Photoshopped images of what the perfect girl should be. Every magazine you see nowadays boasts about their new diets or the best way to shed fat in short amounts of time, constantly seeing that and wondering why you don’t look like that often can have a lasting impact on young boys and girls. This can make boys and girls try to lose weight in unhealthy ways, have emotional issues as a result of eating disorders such as depression,r while trying to look how they think they should, but in reality nobody looks …show more content…
A negative body image can cause more issues, some leading to low self esteem and having even more mental health issues such as depression, infact as many as half of all patients diagnosed with binge eating disorder have a history of depression (Jarret). Having depression is known to possibly lead to an eating disorder, and having an eating disorder can lead to depression. Being severely underweight and malnourished, which is common in anorexia, can cause physiological changes that are known to negatively affect mood states (Jarret) Although, There are ways you can get help with these things and overall body …show more content…
Although, There are ways to improve your body image, and get treatment for any side effects from your negative body image before. There’s a few options for treating these problems, the most popular are probably you can go through therapy or go with medication. Each of these have their own disadvantages and advantages. When you use medication to help with depression, it's really easy to take, and the effects show up somewhat quickly too. Although, there are disadvantages such as when the patient decides