How Body Shaming Affects Mental Health!

What is Body Shaming????

In very simple terms, body shaming means making someone feel bad for the way their body is. It could be on the basis of color, weight, height, or shape. According to the oxford dictionary,???

“Body shaming is the act or practice of humiliating a person based on their body type by making critical and/or mocking statements about their body shape and size.”??

People have their own ideas on what constitutes "beauty," which includes standards for skin color, body proportions, hair length, and the types of apparel that should or should not be worn.???

People are constantly too thin, obese, tall, short, dark, or fair for society, which has unforeseen effects in daily life. Body shaming has unexpected mental and physical health implications for both the individual who is body shaming and the person who is being body shamed.????

Body Shaming and Mental Health!?

Weight and body type stigma can have long-term psychological and physical health ramifications. People with disproportionate bodies are frequently ostracized, according to recent research. According to studies, being body-shamed as a teenager has both short and long-term mental health impacts. Low self-esteem, anxiety, and depressed symptoms are all hallmarks of body shaming.?

?Because of the humiliation experienced, body shame can lead to emotions of avoidance and isolation. Low self-esteem, self-image, and self-worth are also on the rise. Worse, it can make a person feel isolated and sorry for himself, leading to despair. Body shaming can also lead to poor eating habits. Eating too much to gain weight or refusing to eat to lose weight are also possibilities.?

How to avoid Body Shaming???

The simplest solution to body shaming is positivity; positivity in terms of acceptance, positivity in terms of attitude and positivity in terms of overall humanness. People don’t realize how hard they’re being on a person who’s already having a hard time fitting into society. Whatever you say or do, you can never get an idea what effect it has on people. So, try to be positive and put smiles on as many faces as you can. TAP can help you inculcate that positivity in your life. If you are a victim of body shaming, or know someone who has been bullied, TAP has the right solution for you. Our experts and mentors will work in close proximity to heal the scars left on your soul. Don’t stay silent, speak up, let’s end the stigma together.??