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Black Body Dysmorphia? Can Negative Stereotypes Of Our Own Bodies Lead To A Mental Disorder?
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11:34Now PlayingBody dysmorphic disorder is a mental condition in which you can't stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or flaws in your appearance -- a flaw that, to others, is either minor or not observable. But you may feel so ashamed and anxious that you may avoid many social situations.
A new essay published by the Black Youth Project and written by a Nigerian-American Cornell University freshman Gloria Oladipo argues that negative views of our own bodies can and do lead to an obsessive focus on our body's dysmorphia. Dysmorphia means a deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
She writes, in part:
"The stigma around having "Black" features--the traditional large nose and fuller lips--can evoke a specific, racialized body dysmorphia, one where these features are obsessively viewed as beastly and unattractive.
My body looked damaged to me, a substantial barrier to the many goals that were already hard to achieve as a Black woman."
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