Ep. 79 - How Social Media Helps Turn Us Into Narcissists
The Matt Walsh Show
The Matt Walsh Show
4.7 • 27.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So have you heard about the hottest new mental disorder? |
| 0:02.8 | It's the it's the it's the newest one on the market you can go and pick it up at Target or Walmart if you want |
| 0:08.6 | It's called Snapchat dysmorphia. That's the newest one. We read a little bit from the the story about it on the daily wire |
| 0:15.3 | It says plastic surgeons say more people are coming into their offices and asking if the doctors can make them look like they do in Snapchat |
| 0:24.7 | researchers from Boston University School of Medicine's Department of Dermatology |
| 0:28.2 | uh, uh, wrote previously patients would bring images of celebrities to their concentrations to emulate their attractive features |
| 0:35.5 | A new phenomenon dubbed Snapchat dysmorphia |
| 0:39.6 | Has patients seeking out cosmetic surgery to look like filtered versions of themselves instead with fuller lips bigger eyes or a thinner nose |
| 0:48.7 | This is an alarming trend |
| 0:50.7 | Because those filtered selfies often present an unattainable look and are blurring the lines of reality and fantasy for these patients |
| 0:58.3 | Okay, so |
| 0:59.5 | people are going in and they're asking for a plastic surgery |
| 1:03.0 | So there were some statistics about plastic surgery in this article and trying to find them that were pretty |
| 1:07.5 | disturbing |
| 1:08.7 | Uh, the Washington reports that in Washington Post reports that in a 2017 survey the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that |
| 1:17.5 | 55% of plastic surgeons |
| 1:21.2 | uh, said patients had requested surgery to look better on social media apps |
| 1:26.5 | Up 13% from the previous year 55% |
| 1:31.7 | Over half of the patients are going in and trying to permanently alter their bodies surgically |
| 1:39.2 | Just for the sake of social media |
| 1:42.1 | now this really isn't |
| 1:44.1 | That complicated and it isn't it. This is not a mental disorder either |
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