(November 22, 2017 at 6:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 22, 2017 at 6:21 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Apparently female self inflicted injury, age 10 to 24, was relatively stable prior to 2008 and is now dramatically on the rise. The rates did not significantly change for males.
Can it be the bust around that time? Seems like that would effect male and females alike. And that has been corrected.
What else changed? I'm at a loss. But then I'm far removed from that group.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/ar...ct/2664031
I can tell you exactly what it is. The rise of social media. Girls specifically are put in a lot more pressure to present a perfect image of themselves and compare themselves to other girls. And with young people constantly on their social media accounts, there's just no break from the self judgement, pressure, and comparisons. It's constant and its not just Facebook. It's twitter, instragram, snap chat, periscope, etc.
So how do we address this. Is there any way to address the way girls are acculturated? They grow up being told they're pretty which plants the seed. As a man, I don't worry what I look like. What I do is more important and that is what I was acknowledged for growing up.
