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Instagram and my body: Is there a relationship?

Posted on Blog by admin · September 04, 2018 8:56 PM · 1 reaction

Insta_logo.pngBy Ayelen Hamity, AnyBody Argentina team member

It's one in the morning, a Tuesday, and my face is stained with an angelic luminous blue - the reflection of my cell phone and its faithful companion - Instagram. My Instagram account is relatively chaotic in content. I follow friends and family, models, philosophy accounts, photography, feminists, accounts that teach exercise routines, how to cook, how to make desserts. . . If the only thing that remains when I die is my Instagram account, my death certificate will read 'death by hysteria'. Aside from the chaos of its content, Instagram is an application that I use quite often: before going to sleep, when I wake up, and in those 'dead' moments of the day. Honestly, I never saw it as a problem – in fact – Instagram is my voyeuristic friend: a window to the world.

One day, Google News showed me the dark side of my friend, with a heading that read:

'Looking at Instagram for only 30 minutes a day can wreck your body image.'

What?

I have no idea how much time I spend on Instagram, but this news led me to explore the application a little more closely. What effect can Instagram have on mental health, and specifically, what effect can it have on my relationship with my own body? Before I could answer those questions, I reviewed the basics:

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