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“My Ideal body”
Impact of social media on Body- image issues in the times of Covid-19
From the trending challenges of learning to make Dalgona coffee to engaging In the most idealized tasks and posting onto the social media , that’s how we all showed a response to the pandemic. The reason being people have started posting to social media more, as an outlet for pent-up creativity and an anodyne to the lethargy, loneliness, and boredom of isolation. Covid-19 has a significant impact on all of our lives, with all the challenges ,comes the challenge of maintaining the “ideal body” as well.
The research evidence of National Eating disorders association reviewed that the hotline calls have risen 70-80 percent in the recent months of Covid-19,and people with eating disorder and body image concerns got affected badly on the same scale. The worsening of the symptoms of eating disorders have been reported by the International journal of eating disorders since the pandemic hit. Due to the isolation and no outdoor communication, the relevance of social media got rocketed.with the exposure to the recurrent social media representation of people with idealized body and filtered face time lead to the stressful mental health well-being for the one with eating disorders and those with low self-esteem concerns.
The recent spark of the quarantine-15(it refers to the new pound gain since the pandemic and hasn’t been reduced). had also impacted the media coverage badly.
While here as we talk about eating disorders ,we can gain more insight on it through Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5),which is available for the clinicians’to use and the marked diagnosis should always be done by a licensed psychologist and psychiatrist.
The common thoughts and behaviour that hinders the functioning of the person includes-
- Persistence disturbance of eating or eating related behaviour that results in the altered consumption of food that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning .
- the consistent check on the self-body image in mirror ,whether they are pretty enough, or “ideal” enough leads to the dysfunctioning in their entire day-to-day routine.
- cutting down on food to make the body slim, or binging of food and puking it after are the common most prominent symptoms we see in DSM.
- consistent fear of body fat gain
- self-evaluation is based on body weight and shape .
Measures to improve our negative self-image
- Surrounding and following groups or accounts in social media which share the positive self-image body awareness and are sensitized with your feelings
- Foremost priority should be to seek a counselling service in order to gain insight and power over your negative self-talk
- Do something nice to your body (e.g. get a new haircut, buy new comfortable clothes)
- Seeing oneself as a whole person,not the parts of it.
There are many ways in which our negative self-image can be oriented towards a positive self-image, along with our own growth with thoughts and building themes of how best things work for our body shape and image can be developed efficiently with the support groups present around us in the form of family,friends and co-workers.
A synergy of psychosocial support would not only lead us to grow but would make us accept in the very form of “perfect” as we are.
