MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS BEYOND ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE BODY IMAGE PROBLEM

Author: Kaylee Misener, Clinical Psychology PhD student at University of British Columbia Okanagan // 

In a 2003 New York Times interview, Dr. Susie Orbach, a sociologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said “we’re still not fully recognizing that the body-image problem is a public health emergency”. Unfortunately, this statement still rings true today.