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Male Body Dysmorphia

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Is There a Correlation Between Body Image Issues and Social Media?

There are a lot of things in social media, which I think could be propagating unhealthy body image issues. For example, the worse that you feel about yourself, the less likely you are to post selfies. Other examples of stuff that has been shown to really correlate with negative body image issues for men are things like fitspiration. There's another diagnosis that people are proposing, which is orthorexia nervosa. It's not about losing weight; it's about wanting to be healthy. We're starting to see a lot of different, almost, obsessional beliefs about particular kinds of food.

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