Quote from: Bander72 on July 05, 2017, 10:35:35 AMA topic dicussed heavily recently has been if mental disorders are the real causes that affect many users life. Be it from low self esteem or height neurosis we have all faced this to a degree.
If you could define only low self esteem as a mental illness (it is not one), then you could define the majority of the forum members as being mentally ill. That's why it's funny when you get some taller narcissists registering here and making posts on how they will finally get to be their 6'2 "true" selves, get the [number slash ten] women they "deserve" or whatever other bs they learned off the web, all after breaking their legs for it. They talk of the perfect life they're "entitled" to or have been "robbed of", but it just shows their (possibly literally) crippling insecurity. With that said, there's nothing wrong with having low self esteem, and for most it generally stems from real issues (like physical features, which may include height).
But yes, every man who's the average (or above) male height of the place he lives in has most likely other underlying issues. The most common ones are certainly BDD, depression, anxiety disorders and/or narcissistic personality disorder. It's much more important they give self-acceptance a try, as it could solve whatever pain they have without the risks. I don't think their height disqualifies them from CLL (it's their legs, life, and money), but it's obviously different for them. There are more complex factors like being an okay height for your country but under the average of your own ethnic group, but I'll leave that aside for now.
QuoteWhen in your opinion does it go to far to the point that they need to forget about the surgery and focus on getting help.
Most people will benefit from getting help if they went far enough down the rabbit hole to learn about CLL, no matter if actually very short or average. With that said, it's specially obvious/urgent that anyone who feels like they need to get CLL as soon as possible for them, despite being the average (or above) height for their country, needs to try to get help before even thinking about going through a procedure like this. You could call these people sick, as they will be willing to go to very bad doctors and risk so much. Ideally, no one should be going to bad doctors, but these people may not even benefit from it, even if it all goes well. In general, anyone who seems like they're about to make a bad, uninformed, hasty decision needs help first and foremost.
If this was an easy and cheap surgery where people magically get the height increase they want with the press of a button, my opinion would be very different. Too bad we are still not living in the times where people are easily able to look like whatever they want to look like.
This is also an interesting thread because it has more information on Rozbruch, and I know there have been more people looking into him recently.
