I guess the height dysphoria term was used to include people with severe dissatisfaction with height...Earlier, only people who did this surgery were those who felt their original height was a crippling issue and that is how I guess the term was coined..Now a days, even people who have short height as a mild insecurity are undergoing this surgery..What happens as a result of using height dysphoria over and over again is that it can transform your mild insecurity into a dysphoria..Especially if it comes from a renowned surgeons such as Paley and his psychologist Windisch..Once that happens, you would want to get the surgery no matter what..I guess people should NOT let that happen to them..Any guy who is below 5 foot 7 in the West would have some sort of height insecurity as long as he is not totally delusional..There are people who are OK with that mild insecurity..But once you feed their mind with terms such as dysphoria, media articles like -taller people earn more money, youtube videos like taller people get girls etc, their insecurity gets transformed to dysphoria..It is amazing what factors cause insecurity..I am NOT against the surgery by any means..What I am totally for is that people do a HONEST self-analysis on how short height affects them rather than basing it on anything else..
It's not just the media though, we see preferential treatment for taller guys all the time in real life too. I do agree that being on this forum makes you more obsessed with height and needing the surgery, but I also think that most who end up getting the surgery fix their height dysphoria as well.
Yeah..It is multi-factorial
When I walk on the street, I see tall people (around 6'1'') and I want to be like them.
It's just a personal preference. I don't want to be short.
That is obvious...Same when I look at someone with Ferrari etc..The point is LL comes at a price and it is not small..The question is whether it is worth it to pay the price at all..So when you use terms like height dysphoria, your pendulum strongly swings in the direction of getting LL
Quote from: Realistic on February 02, 2021, 07:14:10 AMThat is obvious...Same when I look at someone with Ferrari etc..The point is LL comes at a price and it is not small..The question is whether it is worth it to pay the price at all..So when you use terms like height dysphoria, your pendulum strongly swings in the direction of getting LL
I am not interested in luxury, I'm interested in being taller because I like it. It's "height dysphoria"? I don't care, I only care that I am not living in a body that I like, while other people are around 6'1'' tall.
If something goes wrong, bad luck, but at least I would have tried to fix my life, but most of CLL complications are solvable. You can have problems doing extreme sports, driving a Ferrari fast, riding a motorbike... If you want to live 100% safe, travel only by train or walking.
CLL is not very dangerous, there are complications, but most of them can be solved:
https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/2046-3758.97.BJR-2019-0379.R1
It seems that lengthening a single leg due a discrepancy is 100% OK and lengthening two is "oh, don't do it, hell no, you will cripple yourself for life, your pain will be excruciating your entire life...", sometimes said by > 6' people who don't know anything about CLL.
LL is dangerous and there are multiple complications that often occur after surgery and lenghtening.
Thats why normal doctors dont do these type of surgeries. But when people want to kill themselves over their height then its better to get this surgery. So if u cant cope and want to rope then get LL. After all its just in your head of feeling superior to other men due to height. 
i do feel it is a dympton of a mental condition - the issue is manifested as being height related
symptom
Height dysphoria could be a mental condition..Height insecurity is not..Insecurity can get translated to dysphoria based on your sensitivity and the things you focus on or the content you consume IMO..
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