Americans Obsessed with Appearance

People pay a considerable attention to appearance. Like every other person, Americans are also obsessed by their physical appearance. America has become a society that is obsessed with appearance. Feeling and looking good is a right of all human beings, but when physical appearance is a priority, it can become an obsession and sometimes be a symptom of body dysmorphic disorder. Body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, is a disease where the person imagines that he has a physical defect, especially in hair, skin, nose, eyes, chin, lips, or any other part of the anatomy, to the extent that causes intense distress and obsessed correct. This concern that an individual has by this change, slight or imagined it affects school performance, family, work and causes significant impairment in performing daily activities (Lindberg, 397-408).

Physical appearance has become an element of the struggle for life, love, economic, social, and professional. The obsession for appearance also leads to shyness due to which they start to avoid intimate relationships. They can be reserved and reluctant to seek help for what they might think of them or because they feel too ashamed. It has been suggested that fewer men seek help for the disease than women. Obsession related to appearance can also be due to obesity. There is also a psychological suffering, because American society is not good enough for the obese, children are tortured at school (Pope, 85-98).

American due to certain reasons is obsessed with appearance, which leads to various disorders. Disorders such as Anorexia and bulimia nervosa, dysmorphic disorders, obsessive compulsive, emotional and behavioral problems, in short it is a modern obsession with body perfection, is the new "epidemic of body worship(Pope, 85-98)."

This plague of the pursuit of perfection has different forms of manifest and some of them differ markedly from each ...