Think you look better in your latest selfie than in real life? Then beware of “Snapchat dysmorphia,” a newly dubbed term for people seeking plastic surgery to mimic their appearance in filtered selfies, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “Sometimes I have patients who say, ‘I want every single spot gone, and I want it gone by this week or I want it gone tomorrow,’ because that’s what this filtered photograph gave them,” dermatologist Neelam Vashi tells the Washington Post. “They check off one thing, and it’s gone. That’s not realistic. I can’t do that.”
The fixation may be a new version of body dysmorphic disorder (or BDD), a mental ailment that makes people obsess over any perceived flaw in their appearance.
A 2017 survey of plastic surgeons first spotted the trend, which is fueled by photo-filtering and editing technology once available only to celebrities. “This is an alarming trend because those filtered selfies often present an unattainable look and are blurring the line of reality and fantasy for these patients,” according to an article in the JAMA medical journal co-written by Vashi.
Thanks FUR, that photo triggered me. Or something.
Ever read that article years ago
about Obungo? It was written by a
world renowned Dr.PHD type dude from Israel.
Obungo was and is the worst case he ever saw
of narcissism.Most homos are narcissist…
“…and are blurring the line of reality and fantasy for these patients,…”
so this is something that must be dealt with, and sexual dysphoria/transmorphia is to be accepted?
Gotta be a dream
I really can’t blame Barry for preferring his own image considering the Sleestack he had to wake up with.
Radio: you mean…”does this d..k in my a.. make me look fat?”
“Think you look better in your latest selfie than in real life?”
No, worse. Much much worse.
I have a sibling who selfies ALL THE TIME. F’ing embarrasing.