Effects Of Body Shaming To Victims

 

Effects Of Body Shaming To Victims

1. Social Anxiety

Body shaming is currently the most serious issue in today's generation. The fear of situations in which we must interact with people is known as social anxiety. We are frightened of being body shamed because we are afraid of being judged. Negative thinking causes a mixed experience of acute discomfort and humiliation in social circumstances. People suffering from social anxiety disorder may be concerned about acting or appearing physically worried, such as blushing and tripping over words. Victims' major trauma will make them feel nervous or uncomfortable in social circumstances when they have been body shamed.

2. Mental Health 

For this point, body shaming can cause individuals to change their perspective of seeing themselves drastically. It can occur by othersjudgements. Judgements such as, comparing them with the individual about how they look like in a certain way. It also can make victims lack of confidence and have negative thinking about them self. However, not only can body shaming cause an individual's thinking to shift, but it may also have an impact on their mental health and daily life because it leaves a permanent impression on their brain. For example, may leave critical remarks such as "you should work on your body" or "are you sure you're going to eat that?" and many others. By mentioning permanent markings, they mean that they are always concerned about how their appearance may appear, even when they are alone. In addition, they will also experience terrible mental health because they only think that they are an imperfect person and must do something that can make them reach the perfect standard of beauty in the eyes of others. As a result, sufferers will withdraw from others, such as family and friends, because they believe they are not good enough for them.

3. Eating Disorder

Body shaming also can cause victims to modify their view on how they see themselves and to be more conscious of how they present themselves. They'll start comparing themselves to others. That will cause the victims to lose a lot of confidence, especially during the first impression. Being a victim of body shaming makes them adopt eating habits in a bad way and will suffer from an eating disorder. Moreover, victims may also begin to pick an unhealthy diet and develop anorexia, which is starving and not eating, or bulimia, which is vomiting after eating. It is very sad because it will cause them to become unhealthy and will suffer from other more serious diseases. As a result, this can cause death since organs in the body can be destroyed over time, as well as nausea, insomnia, and sleep deprivation owing to a lack of sleep and rest due to overthinking.