The drive for thinness

Pulkit Sharma - Clinical Psychologist & Author

The contemporary society continues to idolize a female body which is thin. This often pushes many girls and women into excessive dieting, self-hatred, preoccupation with body weight, fear of becoming fat and chasing thinness at any cost. Pulkit Sharma, a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic therapist, spiritual counselor and author carried out pioneering research on Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) in India in 2003 and since then, he has been spreading awareness against these unrealistic beauty standards.   This is an excerpt from an interview recorded in 2013 in which Pulkit Sharma spoke to Jagran Media team about the Indian society's obsession with thinness.   #bodyimage #thinness #women #pulkitsharmaclinicalpsychologist #authorpulkit

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00:01The drive for thinness which is prevalent in our society is becoming crazy and unrealistic day by day.

00:09In fact, there's a recent study which documented that if the Barbie doll, the doll that most girls play with,

00:16if she were to be a real adult woman, her waist would be 16 inches, which is unreachable.

00:24This drive for thinness is making people excessively dissatisfied with the way they look.

00:31Even people who have decent, normal, good looks, they feel extremely dissatisfied with their body weight.

00:38Size zero is in and people are kind of going to various extents,

00:45at times even adopting a very unhealthy lifestyle going for unnecessary surgeries to be thin.

00:51This has a huge impact on the person's well-being and mental health

00:57and is making several people extremely distressed.

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