In this case: YouTube video See a post from the magazine "To the point!" of the SWR with Prof. Dr. Werner Mang on the subject of social media and cosmetic surgery.
Hair transplants, cateye lift, lip lifitng, cheek liposuction and more! The vulnerability of people to an optimized self-image and to the digital possibilities for modifying the beauty on the screen provide a – not so new – Trend: more and more and younger women and young people want ever more bizarre changes to their bodies.
The social media with its technical possibilities – at the forefront: the platform Instagram – provide an alienated self-perception and thus reality distortion. With the help of the available filters of social media, people can – initially on the screen – see themselves as they have never seen each other – optimized. The self-deception: the eel-smooth skin, the changed face contour and the simulated weight loss is an illusion – digitally, almost everything is possible.
False online role models such as well-known glossy influencers and the digitally optimized self-image sometimes seduce twelve-year-old girls to wish for larger lips and breasts – in the distance, the big money waves as a "star" – and some cosmetic surgeons also perform everything that is feasible. Special requests of this kind are only too familiar to Professor Dr. Dr. Werner Mang and do not believe in it. Overall, he considers this trend to be a fatal development and points to the psychological problems that often accompany such changes. In his opinion, plastic surgery has many good and important aspects, but it is by no means there to re-operate humans.
Last but not least, the desire for change also has an addictive character: you always find something new in yourself that displeases you.
Here you can watch the video about the Bodenseeklinik on youtube!