How much does poor body image affect mental health?

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Vytvořeno 18. 5. 2019 Napsal www.theguardian.com 0 0 0

"For Hannah Lewis, policy officer at Rethink Mental Illness, how we see ourselves is also a public health issue: “People with poor body image are at risk of self harm and of potentially harmful sexual behaviour,” she says. And poor body image can further undermine the wellbeing of people who already have a mental illness. Some medications can cause weight gain. “That’s really important to a person’s body image,” says Lewis. But can concerns about how you look directly lead to an eating disorder?"

Read more in an article by Lynn Eaton and Rossalyn Warren.