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"My body is disgusting." By Flea - 11-24-2009 07:14 PM
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This isn't really connected to MA, but I thought it might be worth exploring here. When I first checked into my hotel a couple weeks ago, my mother came over for a short visit. I told her to bring her bathing suit because the hotel has a nice hot tub. She launched into a soliloquy that lasted a good 3-4 minutes about how disgusting she looked. She even itemized the problems with her appearance - liver spots, weight, wrinkles, arthritic joints - and said she wouldn't be so cruel as to inflict that upon hapless strangers who jumped into the tub alongside us. It broke my heart.
I could be wrong, but in my experience this particular flavor of self-loathing seems to be mostly a female phenomenon. It's unhealthy psychologically of course, but it also keeps people from doing things that would enrich their lives. For the same reason she won't go to a gym, so the weight gain is a vicious cycle. I don't know why people do this to themselves, or internalize this message coming from others.
Any thoughts?
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This isn't really connected to MA, but I thought it might be worth exploring here. When I first checked into my hotel a couple weeks ago, my mother came over for a short visit. I told her to bring her bathing suit because the hotel has a nice hot tub. She launched into a soliloquy that lasted a good 3-4 minutes about how disgusting she looked. She even itemized the problems with her appearance - liver spots, weight, wrinkles, arthritic joints - and said she wouldn't be so cruel as to inflict that upon hapless strangers who jumped into the tub alongside us. It broke my heart.
I could be wrong, but in my experience this particular flavor of self-loathing seems to be mostly a female phenomenon. It's unhealthy psychologically of course, but it also keeps people from doing things that would enrich their lives. For the same reason she won't go to a gym, so the weight gain is a vicious cycle. I don't know why people do this to themselves, or internalize this message coming from others.
Any thoughts?
Read More ... or click reply below.
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