Roberto Olivardia
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1,143 appearances
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first heard May 2020
last heard Aug 2024
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And to your point, you know, it's an eating disorder is an incredibly, incredibly difficult thing to struggle with and to have.
And so there's a lot of shame for men and women who struggle with.
Eating disorders.
But for men, and definitely what I got from that very first study was the profound amount of shame being a male, because there's this conception that only women struggle with it.
And so when these men who struggle with it and boys that I work with, they often think, Well, what's wrong with me?
And they feel it's almost like an assault on their sense of being a boy or a man, their masculinity.
all of those things um have always been sort of issues that I I deal with in treating boys and men.
Oh, without a doubt.
Absolutely.
I mean, that that's one of the things that if we ever do a second edition would be a whole body of research in social media, because when we wrote the book, there was no social media.
Um, and it absolutely has exacerbated these problems um for for young people in general.
And what the studies show actually is that with social media that the impact
Impact that it has on body dissatisfaction is actually just as uh much for boys as it is for girls.
Um that
There are apps that you can kind of have a picture and photoshop out your acne and you could make your eyes bigger and bluer and browner and and all of these things.
And if if you check out these apps, they're marketed just as much to teen boys as they are to teen girls.
Uh the idea that we can't even have
you know, a um uh a picture that looks kind of mediocre anymore.
You know, that for a lot of these young people, everything they post, they want to make sure they look their best and that they look good.
And and it's almost an obligation to fine-tune it, Photoshop it, put different filters on it.
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