- Stress- The pressure from media adds a lot of stress to teens everyday life. Everybody can go through peer pressure, but it mostly affects girls and boys between the ages of 12-25. This means all teens classify to being easily affected by peer pressure.
- Social Anxiety- “Facebook crowds out other things,” says Sherry Turkle, Ph.D., MIT professor and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other “Over time, you almost start to feel phobic about conversation.” Make an effort to pick up the phone; better yet, meet up with a friend or take a walk. “Smile at people,” says Dr. Cantor. “Research says it produces changes in the brain that are pleasurable.”
- Eating disorders- the media has a specific sized girl in mind that is the definition of perfect. But in magazines they are all photoshopped to look even smaller than they would in real life, thus making boys and girls feel like they need to be thinner or more fit. Some feel like the only way they can achieve looking that way is through things like starvation or purging.
- It's been noted that girls as young as five or six years old are developing eating disorders and the media are seemingly quiet about this. Health publications and psychological experts are joining to trumpet the ill affects the industry's trends of skinniness is having on young, impressionable children
Saturday, 6 April 2013
What I'm interested in.
My topic for my argumentative essay is "media is responsible for poor teen mental health." I am interested in this topic because I have noticed the affect that our society has on those who don't particularly "fit in" and I would like to know more about what makes people feel pressured to change themselves to become what they think media wants them to be like. Each person feels like they have to do different things to fit in. Some, it's just as simple as putting on make-up and wearing certain outfits. For others it's things that are a lot more extreme. Those things may include the following:
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