Unrealistic Beauty

In today’s society, everything is about beauty, and what they portray as beauty is nothing realistic. Most women nowadays have some sort of eating disorder or mental disorder, because of trying to reach this unrealistic beauty. Some of the effects caused by the unattainable body image society is anorexia, bulimia and many other disorders. Many times women trying to attain this body image can become depressed and have major self-esteem issues. Sometimes people will even go to the length of using drugs, to achieve this body image. Overall the issue at hand is that society is giving this body image that cannot be realistically attained, and is causing women to have body image issues and self-esteem issues trying to attain this body ideal.
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Depression is not an easy thing to overcome and almost everyone that has it has never been able to fully overcome it. Self-harming can also be cause my home life or stress in their lives, but most times it is found that most people that self-harm it comes from being unhappy with themselves or how they look. Another very important thing that people can use to try and make themselves skinnier are drugs. May it be abusing drugs that are already prescribed to them or getting them off the street. Pretty much anyone has access to them and can get ahold of them. Adderall, meth, cocaine and heroin all can help with losing weight. If a person feels that, that is how far they have to go to reach the beauty goal some people will do it. It is nowhere near the healthiest thing to do or try but some people do it. Along with dieting, some diets are actually very good for you but if you only eat once a day or make yourself throw up after eating it is not healthy. Just like dieting pills. They help you lose the weight but 99% of the time you will gain it back and then some. Overall, with so many people trying to be just like what they see as beautiful in the magazines, it really just harms them and makes them feel