Is there any link between your body image and your mental health? Join us over at the Nsangli Show this afternoon let’s talk about that:
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According to Psychology today,
Body Image is simply what you think you look like.
Body image is the mental representation an individual creates of themselves, but it may or may not bear any relation to how one actually appears. Body image is subject to all kinds of distortions from the attitudes of one’s parents, other early experiences, internal elements like emotions or moods, and other factors. The severe form of poor body image is body dysmorphic disorder, where dissatisfaction over a slight or undetectable defect in appearance becomes a severe obsession.
These and more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mde7N2ZrfsQ&t=32s