What she said. If You Want To Recover from an Eating Disorder.
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Social media, self-esteem and Eating Disorders: a messy combination
During Eating Disorder Awareness Week there is a lot of focus on the eating disorder itself. Pieces on what’s it’s like to have one and helpful tips to aid recovery. This is all great.
I’m taking a different approach. Many pieces highlight the roles that self esteem and peer comparison play in eating disorders development. So I’m writing about the part social media plays in influencing self esteem and peer comparison. I’ll leave the connection between the three, to you.
Social Media can and does affect your mind and our mood. Fact. Don’t believe me? Give up social media for Lent and see how long you last before you turn into a grotty horror zombie or maybe you’ll feel ten times better.
When I was in secondary school, social media didn’t exist. I’m 28 now, my childhood was spent playing POGS or Red Rover and watching ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’. I’ll be bold and say my formative years came free of the ways social media can hurt self-esteem. But by the time I was in college, Facebook was a big thing, and pretty quickly everyone had smart phones and there were too many social platforms to keep up with. Read more
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