Hi friends it's Sarah May this is a big episode and it's about body dysmorphia.

It's for the average sufferer of body dysmorphia.

I'm calling it ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.

So this one's for planet Earth.

Here we go. We all have an internal self-portrait and that is created by the way we feel about who we are.

And there are so many factors that control how we feel about ourselves and what we

perceive as our flaws.

And that's why body dysmorphia is such a big problem.

It looked and acts like normal self-image concerns and it

walks and talks like vanity and yet it destroys the average person's happiness in

so many ways across a lifetime unchecked.

Your self-image is a distorted hallucination, one heavily affected by your fears,

vulnerabilities, your brain chemicals, and the way you integrate information from the world around you.

It has nothing to do with your actual physical appearance. That's one reason this is such a powerful

and rising problem.

It's the kind of suffering that's veiled

as legitimate, as average.

An ever-growing percentage of the population

is dissatisfied with some or many

traits of their physical appearance. And when everyone you know obeys the same

standard and marketing and media reinforce the irrational bar you have set for yourself.

How would you ever know there was another option?

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