In a broad sense, beauty can be any or all things or even thoughts, concepts or ideas that are appealing. ... People in modern society are very likely to be affected with this so-called epidemic disease, beauty sickness, with the public's rigid and biased perceptions on beauty that undermine our self-image deliberately. ... Feelings from depression, shame, and a sense of guilt to anger, self-hatred, jealousy and even a sense of worthiness and worthlessness will manifest themselves throughout the process of comparison and competition. ...

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One of these complications is the tendency of bulimic patients to commit suicide because of aggravating sense of despair and loss of hope. ... This behavior is one that identifies an individual suffering from bulimia nervosa along with a self-perception determined mainly by physical appearance, specifically, body weight and size. ... Already suffering from poor self-perception, the bulimic person becomes more disapproving and hateful of his or her physical appearance with the recognition that his or her physical ills are rendering his or her body less attractive. ... Apart from loss of hope, ...

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This false sense of accomplishment is often reinforced by the envy of their heavier friends who may perceive anorexic patients as being stronger and more sexually attractive than they are. ... In another study people with anorexia tended to have an accurate perception of their upper body, but over estimated the size of their abdominal and pelvic area. ...

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Regardless of gender, an anorexic will have a completely distorted perception of how they look pertaining to weight and size ("Anorexia Nervosa" 2). What causes the fear of weight gain and a distorted perception has been discovered and explained through behavioral theories. ... However, as sad as it is, this may be the only sense of pride and achievement these patients feel. ...

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According to Dohnt and Tiggemann (2006), girls' perceptions of their peers' body dissatisfaction predicted their own level of body dissatisfaction. ... These studies all concluded that the media played a secondary role in influencing adolescents' perceptions. ...

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Society creates a glamorized perception of ideal body types that symbolically relate to success and power through mass media. ... Keel and Klump (2003) mention the diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa according to the DSM-IV-TR as 1. eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period) an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances (p.755). 2. a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eatin...

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This perception society has created, plays a major part in our countries obsession with thinness and extreme dieting (Nardo 1991). ... In that sense, many suffering from eating disorders feel like if they achieve their goal weight they too will find the happiness associated with what our society values as slenderness and beauty (Pipher 1995). ...

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People with Anorexia refuse to be satisfied with even minimally normal body weight, and are intensly afraid of gaining weight and have distorted perceptions of the shape and size of their bodies." ... These factors may make a person struggling with self-image and weight problems feel a sense of hopelessness, since there is nothing they can do about their body. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate