Cashing in on body image:

HOW BODY DYSMORPHIA IS A CAPITALIST ISSUE

By Adele Walton

Body dysmorphia is defined by the NHS as “a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others.”

As someone who had struggled with body dysmorphia since the age of 14, I was not yet informed enough to look beyond the battles I was fighting in my own mind with my mirror image.

Questioning the systemic causes was not a viable option when I was at my lowest points, as body dysmorphia is all-consuming, obsessive and inescapable. Like capitalism, it does not rest.

Cashing in on body image:

HOW BODY DYSMORPHIA IS A CAPITALIST ISSUE

By Adele Walton