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Islam and Mental Health with Psychiatrist Dr Imran Waheed

The Thinking Muslim

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The Economics of Fashion

Social media, marketing and beauty companies has a big part to play in building these unrealistic expectations for young girls. A professor at Columbia University coined the term the philosophy of futility. He said that human attention is concentrated on superficial things in which fashion reigns. So all of this actually, when we're talking about people's appearance, people have become focused on this. This has actually become their belief system.

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