Use of the term - Height Dysphoria

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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..

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Yeah..It is multi-factorial

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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

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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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It is not just mere perception that it impacts your life though. It does impact. Tall people are usually treated better. The question is whether you would shrug it off or get LL to fix it.