The taking a selfie craze is fuelling body image worries - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The craze for selfies - self-portraits taken on a phone - has been blamed for an increase in the number of young people contacting a leading children's charity. ChildLine bases in Scotland received more than 2,000 calls from young people concerned about the pressure they were under to look good. The charity said sending selfies can be a symptom of low self-esteem. It said physical appearance is a leading cause of bullying. NSPCC, which operates ChildLine, said in the year 2012-13 its call centres in Aberdeen and Glasgow received 2,098 calls from young people worried about their appearance. Warmer months caused a spike in calls with 65% of counselling sessions over concerns about body image taking place during spring and summer.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27909281[/url]

[QUOTE]She said: "I feel under so much pressure to look a certain way but I can't change the fact that I'm ugly and fat.[/QUOTE] Actually in most cases you can change your weight.

[QUOTE=Elstumpo;45153918]Actually in most cases you can change your weight.[/QUOTE] Contrary to popular belief heightened stress and anxiety make weightloss harder, not easier.

The faster this fad dies, the better.

[QUOTE=Holt!;45153978]The faster this fad dies, the better.[/QUOTE] I don't think that's a thing that will happen anytime soon as it's just combination of decent quality cameras being within everyone's reach and the ability to share to share them with everyone being easier and more accepted than ever.

[QUOTE=Elstumpo;45153918]Actually in most cases you can change your weight.[/QUOTE] Depending on your medical experience, skills with a scalpel, and access to pain killers, you can also change the way you look for the better as well.

I always imagine people that constantly take selfies like the chick in this video :v: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0[/media]

[QUOTE=wauterboi;45154015]Depending on your medical experience, skills with a scalpel, and access to pain killers, you can also change the way you look for the better as well.[/QUOTE] I now partially want to see someone perform plastic surgery on themselves. :v: And partially don't because that sounds horrifying and painful even w/ pain killers.

[QUOTE=Elstumpo;45153918]Actually in most cases you can change your weight.[/QUOTE] it's not just people who are obese. lots of teenaged girls feel fat for literally no reason; they look absolutely fine, but their asshole peers make them feel terrible about themselves for having a fraction of an ounce of a thin layer of lipids lining their stomach. it gets harder to shave off extra body fat as you lose more and more - getting from 140 to 130 or shaving off some excess in your arms/stomach requires more dedication and work than getting from 300 to 250.

I don't see the problem with selfies, though. I see a problem with obnoxious people in selfies, but taking a picture of yourself is totally okay.

I never understood this selfie shit. Like, this days phones are all equipped with front facing cameras. WHY? The phone I have is a mid-priced one and even that one has a front camera. [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] Note I never used that camera.

I thought selfies were just when you took a picture of yourself - not that you had to take a picture of yourself in a mirror or whatever.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;45153963]Contrary to popular belief heightened stress and anxiety make weightloss harder, not easier.[/QUOTE] I'm not saying the stress applied is good, I'm saying that holding onto the idea that you cannot lose weight is incorrect and also in itself unhealthy. [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=wauterboi;45154015]Depending on your medical experience, skills with a scalpel, and access to pain killers, you can also change the way you look for the better as well.[/QUOTE] Nor am I saying that one should do literally anything to look 'good'.

I always think that selfies are just pictures of the person holding the camera and maybe with some other people. We do that all the time at my school at it's really fun for some stupid reason. One girl even took a selfie with a police officer. Anyway whoever tells the girls that actually look perfectly fine that they're fat are douches. As if that little fat will kill everything. I mean we have a fat black girl with a big booty and she can't give a shit how she looks. We have fun together and don't care how we look, at least most of the time.

I don't think blaming selfies is going to do anything, people can take pictures of themselves. They're pretty good for most people, I can't name many people regardless of their weight who don't like taking one once in a while. It's just, as Plaster said, douchebags making people feel bad about their weight.

Selfies are great, but only when you take them like I take them. Time Lapse with as many pictures in as little time as possible, almost like a really slow video, record for 10 minutes, post the best one on Facebook! Okay so I don't use Facebook, or a time lapse program, or take selfies, but still this is valuable advice here People blame TV, Movies, Newspapers, Magazines, Games, and now Selfies. If we had none of it they'd just blame other people. It's just something that's there which is great for the majority of people, but makes a select few uncomfortable. But that's life and almost everything in it

Don't blame selfies, blame that people place too much value on how they are perceived by their peers. It's oversocialisation.

If anything it has to do with peer pressure to upload pictures of yourself and put them under your "friends"' scrutiny, which is a much bigger issue than just body image worries

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;45153963]Contrary to popular belief heightened stress and anxiety make weightloss harder, not easier.[/QUOTE] I'm currently using exercise as a channel to my recovery from MDD. There is research suggesting a strong link between physical health, and mental health. It's not easy, but it's just about getting down and dirty. There's no point purely existing, you need to [I]live[/I].

[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;45154042]I never understood this selfie shit. Like, this days phones are all equipped with front facing cameras. WHY? The phone I have is a mid-priced one and even that one has a front camera. [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] Note I never used that camera.[/QUOTE] Video calls

This must be why I've been feeling like shit about myself since I got instagram.

[QUOTE=Goberfish;45155806]Video calls[/QUOTE] Do people actually exist that use video calls?

[QUOTE=Robber;45156738]Do people actually exist that use video calls?[/QUOTE] rich people in commercials

I don't take selfies because of this. I hate my weight. I used to weigh 244, and I weigh 153 now (lbs), but I still feel inadequate looking at everyone else's slender builds

[QUOTE=Robber;45156738]Do people actually exist that use video calls?[/QUOTE] I own multiple videophones. (from the 90's, of course)

[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;45154042] [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] Note I never used that camera.[/QUOTE] Thanks for clearing that up. I was afraid you were a selfie-taking plebeian.

I don't really understand why selfies are being called a craze, people have been taking pictures off themselves for as long as MySpace has been around.

[QUOTE=Doozle;45157058]I don't really understand why selfies are being called a craze, people have been taking pictures off themselves for as long as MySpace has been around.[/QUOTE] They became a craze after it became easier to take pictures of yourself, and the fad that lurked just under the surface broke out into the big leagues of online culture. It's kind of similar to how some memes experience upsurges in popularity long after they were actually invented.

The people I'm friends with on facebook really don't take many selfies, or if they do they're just taking the piss. Regularly taking non-ironic selfies and uploading them is seen as kind of a vain thing to do. Even the popular/hot girls don't really do it, they just take shitloads of pictures of each other on nights out, but not of themselves.

[QUOTE=Holt!;45153978]The faster this fad dies, the better.[/QUOTE] It won't. If you haven't noticed, we've been taking selfies ever since we've been able to take a photo of ourselves. The difference is that it now has its own term: selfie