The Mirror in My Mind: Body Image & Self-Esteem

We live in a media saturated world where we are constantly bombarded with images of supposedly "beautiful people." Everywhere we look - in magazines, on bilboards, on TV, and in the movies, there are surgicaly perfected women who are unrealistically thin and men whose muscles ripple and bulge. How can the rest of us measure up to these standards? and why should we? This video explores and explains the damages these cultural forces can do to a young persons developing sense of self-worth. Many teenagers are likely to develop a negative body image if they feel their body deviates too far from the "cultural norm." In extreme cases, these negative body images can develop into body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) sometimes called the "disease of imagined ugliness." Real-life tesitmonials from young people who struggled with realted issues such as: steroid abuse, anorexia, and bulimia provide a keen insight to the hazards body image anxieties can create. This video offers strategies that teens can use to feel good about themselves and about their bodies. Some of the learning objectives are: students will consider the role that body image plays in the development of self-esteem - students will learn to eliminate negative self-talk - provides tips for improving self-esteem - learn the symtoms of BDD - learn that physical perfection is not a goal worth chasing. part 1 preview time approx: 04:00, total run time: 29:00 minutes. By Wildcatter Productions

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Body
• Dysmorphic
• Disorder
• BDD
• educational
• video
• Self-esteem
• Image
• and
• Self-Esteem
• distribution
• eating
• disorder
• teen
• health

[Linds14ful]

im pretty skinny and ok looking other then my thighs...ive had two or three guys flat out say that i have fat legs and other guys, even my bf never actually dissagreed when i told them about it :\

so now i hate wearing shorts but i dont wanna get too hot in the summer :(

[acejacko23]

the last part of this video is how i think when im out in public!!! im so depressed!! i cant live much longer! because i believe they really are talking about me, and im not paranoid! argh!

[swanwheeler]

Awesome!

[Juxtapose713]

well...my mirror is definitely broken

[wmediacoach1]

We are so bombarded with images. I so much agree. We are bombarded with images of women that are not real. On TV there are many people working on one woman to make her look the way she does on TV and film, from clothes to makeup and sometimes even surgery. But if you see this woman in reality she looks very differently, proably we would not recognize her on the street.

[giralaloka]

i have this no way :(

[TheMrsAnonimus1]

Interesting..

[RCNTVCHANEL]

Shut up bitch.

[AliciaB310]

cool vid