Is the internet changing the way we see ourselves?

is the internet changing the way we see ourselves?

People all around the world are being overloaded with pictures of what people are saying is the perfect body, this perfect body is usually a very skinny girl with perfect teeth , hair and skin. These pictures are seen by all and especially teens who compares themselves to these girls, if they don’t feel the look like these girls they get very self-conscious and start hating who they are. Once they begin to hate themselves they try to change the things they hate.

A worrying amount of teens now have eating disorders and low self-esteem because of images they have seen that websites and tabloids have said is the perfect person. Eating disorders spread through social networking sites and are seen by millions, once one person has seen many more see it to. And when a person gets anorexia or an eating disorder others start thinking about how they feel about their own body.

True story about and eating disorder:

This is a website i used:  http://library.thinkquest.org/27755/horrorstorie.html

Anne

‘At age 16 Anne weighed 110 lbs. But a boy told she wasn't asked to a school dance because she was fat. He was teasing but she was inclined to take it seriously. And she started counting calories.

First, Anne skipped lunch. When swimming suit fashions appeared in stores she dropped breakfast. She obsessively weighed her food and calculated the calories that she consumed. By summer her daily intake had plummeted to some 300 calories a day. Anne weighed 93 pounds. Her knees, elbows and fingers often swelled uncomfortably. She complained that her fingernails broke easily and her hair had split ends. When her friends and parents deplored her emaciated frame, Anne deplored "the ripples of fat" on her legs and her stomach.

She adamantly refused to see a doctor until she fainted while boarding the school bus. In the fall, she cut her forehead; her parents took her to the emergency room. Appalled by her emaciation, the physician said Anne suffered from anorexia nervosa and immediately admitted her to the hospital.’

Laurie

‘Laurie a 9th grader, loved parties especially when she discovered her own answer to weight control. After gulping down several doughnuts and cupcakes and an entire bag of chips she slipped into the bathroom and made herself throw up! It was the ideal compromise between her inability to control her eating and her desire to lose weight. But after several months of bingeing followed by self-induced vomiting, Laurie's throat hurt constantly and her dentist urged her to brush more thoroughly because her teeth were in poor condition. Worse, she could neither stop her binges nor keep her food in her stomach after a normal meal. When she developed a serious ulcer, she finally admitted her binge-purge routine to her doctor. He diagnosed bulimia nervosa and sent Laurie to a psychiatrist, who created a treatment plan that would help her return to healthful, normal eating habits.’