Media's Influence On Eating Disorders

By doing so, pageants provide unrealistic expectations for young women and make them feel sorry for themselves and wish for a “better appearance”. This is not the message we should be sending young women. We should be telling them that inner beauty is more important than how they appear on the outside. In order to get this message across, we will have to work toward abolishing absurd beauty standards and the strive for perfectionism which means eliminating child beauty pageants. By eliminating beauty pageants for children under the age if 18, we will be able to further push young women to strive for inner beauty rather than fixate on their appearances.

Eating Disorders are very prevalent and affecting the lives of many individuals due to the over exposure of image standards set by mainstream media outlets and the lack of self-esteem on the behalf of viewers. Society has established a standard for what beauty is and people strive to abide by the beauty standard. The repercussions to over exposure of mainstream beauty standards leads a disturbing increase in the prevalence of eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia. These devastating conditions are affecting millions of people as people continue to seek approval, feel connected and conform to the societal norm for beauty. It is important for counselors to understand how to identify signs and symptoms of bulimia and anorexia in clients, as there may be early warning signs present in their behavior and appearance.

The majority of girls in today’s society have looked at a model in a magazine or on television and wished they looked like them. The media presented in this generation has impacted women on how they feel towards their body image. Media presents unrealistic women as the “ideal,” making this culture of girls feel dissatisfied with themselves. This is a problem because with plenty of girls already feeling unsatisfied with their body, by using unrealistic models, it creates a further problem with wanting to change themselves by doing dangerous actions such as eating disorders. It’s difficult to cut out the media impact but surely, something can be changed.

There is a lot of controversy when it comes to the issue in whether or not females have excessive pressure to have the perfect bodies. This issue has led to many concerns. Therefore, some individuals argue that females should just be happy with their own personal image. However, 1 out of every 10 teens tried to end their lives because they were experiencing depression and they just wanted to fit in. There is too much pressure on females to have the ideal body image.

This is one example of the many social and peer pressures in life, which can cause people to question their own judgment of right and wrong, or even change their opinions. Eating disorders are classified as a range of psychological disorders that are abnormal. There are many types of eating disorders that affect people and their families. Society is lead to believe that women are the only ones affected by eating disorders, but in reality, men are affected as well. Eating disorders are about physical problems, as well as,

Also to show how people don’t understand and misrepresent the real problem. Many people have a real difficult thing expressing who they really are because people all around tend to judge a lot when they are not happy with themselves to feel better about themselves which is why you need to be powerful and ignore them. The more time that passes you tend to ignore the negativity around you. In the poem it talks about how the rose cracks the concrete just like in the real world people that are poor and struggle and get judged by people. They do however try their best so they can have what they want in life and people feel bad for judging them when they prove they can accomplish anything they want in

The more one tries to find solutions for a world with so much judgment and criticism, the more it becomes difficult. It is obvious, or maybe not yet, that our world might one day collapse because of what people put each other through. Unfortunately, in today’s society skinny is the ultimate goal that everyone is trying to achieve. Many people argue that anorexia is not a disease, but a lifestyle and a choice.

Why is it that we as a community believe that women can not do the same thing as men? There are so many people out in the world today that want to do something big, but stop themselves because they do not think they can. They think that way because of what society has taught them to believe. Society is constantly eating at everyone 's confidence and it is very hard to overcome it, especially if you want to go into something that we usually see men doing. The sexism in the world has gotten better, but even today female scientists are always left out of things.

Though this mental and emotional clash is threatening and brings into question the morale of busyness, people are still not able to overcome their addiction to busyness. Their tendency to be the puppets on society’s string has led them to follow the pursuit of busyness, rather than happiness. As Gopnik discussed in his article, the busyness is so compelling that the people who have been influenced way beyond the maximum point, have lost their ability to sit down and breathe. They have lost their ability to think about their choices and the consequences of them. They are not only building a wall around themselves because they are busy, but also because they have lost any emotional and personal connection with the world.

In a nutshell, this means that we are subconsciously putting ourselves at risk of catching habits that might be hazardous to our wellbeing. In fact, one of the most common habits apparent among the working people of current society is incorporating ourselves into a cycle of unhealthy eating due to the tremendous amount of pressure being put onto us from being connected at all times. Bruce Kell, a personal fitness trainer and a studio owner at Fitness Together Media stated “People have a hard time distinguishing between their perception of living with healthy habits and the reality of their lifestyle choices.” Most of the time, it is only when we are tangled upon these vicious cycles before we actually start realizing the damage being inflicted upon us. “People usually persist in a habit because the direct personal outcomes are satisfying. Reasons to quite a ‘bad habit’ usually relate to the negative consequences of the habit on the long run and/or on the social/physical environment.” (Jager 2003) Regardless, this does not mean that a person is doomed to repeat this cycle of self-harm until their demise.