Snapchat face filter causes people to have plastic surgery

Application affects users shape.

Snap chat application filters, it is very easy to do [plastic surgery]. Patch eyes, make skin white, cheeks and jaws refreshed in the inverted triangle... However, it is pointed out that the ideal person who uploads to social media may influence oneself in the real world.

According to the Jamanetwork, there seems to be an increase in the number of people who are suffering from gaps in reality and performing plastic surgery.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a disorder that obsessively morbidly affects the body's beauty from the low image of its body. However, recently, as the word Snapchat Dysmorphia is on the rise, it seems that many people prefer plastic surgery because they can not accept the difference between themselves and the reality through a filter.

Previously, the patient who visited the clinic asked him to bring the ideal celebrity photos and resemble their attractive part. With this new phenomenon called "Snapchat Dysmorphia", the patient comes to ask for plastic surgery to get close to her own face of plumped lips, big eyes, or thin nose ridge through a Snapchat filter. This trend is very dangerous because the face through such filters is often impossible to reproduce with surgery and obscures the boundary between patient reality and fantasy

The behavior that the doctor should take for patients with such symptoms is not treatment surgery, it is said to be treated with behavior cognitive therapy or medicine.

Excessive retouching on photographs such as fashion photographs and movie actors has been criticized, but similar criticisms are not yet seen in processing for a selfie. However, as fashion magazines and Hollywood stars are planting unrealistic beauty standards in the minds of people. The filters that reflect themselves more cute and smart are also imposing impossible standards. They do not look like this perhaps it gives a silent pressure that it is not necessary.

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