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		Study Suggests Link Between Art Careers and Body Image Disorder (story.news.yahoo.com)		24
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chanle51		2002-11-09 10:07:43 PM

People who consider art their career are likely to be less mentally fit than normal people? This should be news to nobody.

BigBadBishy		2002-11-09 10:35:02 PM

Study suggest link between posting articles straight from Yahoo's front page and receiving boring comments

Dr.Knockboots		2002-11-09 10:36:50 PM

err artists are distorted anyhow.
this isnt even news to that guy who was in a coma for the last 7 years.. hey, can we get a followup on that guy?

unbrchain		2002-11-09 10:44:40 PM

and body modification.....piercings, tatoos, scarring in extreme cases. Nothing new about the disturbed artist.

QuithEx		2002-11-09 10:48:08 PM

It is a common misconception that artists generally are more likely to be depressed, over-emotional, or some kind of mental-illness. Many studies have shown no correlation between emotional/mental disorders and creativity.

My $.02

TheJoeY		2002-11-09 10:49:00 PM

Study suggests link between me and not caring.

KazamaSmokers		2002-11-09 10:51:50 PM

That's ridiculous! Art Careers is a genius! I *loved* him on "The Honeymooners"!

BigBadBishy		2002-11-09 10:53:13 PM

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misspudding		2002-11-09 11:01:49 PM

my mom was an art major. she's been eating disordered ever since college. anorexic thin, then fat, then thin, then fat, then thin, then fat, etc.

doesn't surprise me a bit.

DrDNS		2002-11-09 11:04:05 PM

This explains all of the farked up photoshops.

cryinoutloud		2002-11-09 11:14:02 PM

This comes as no surprise after you've seen Picasso's work.

feles		2002-11-09 11:21:07 PM

"The hot pink reflects the torment of my soul, and the random sploshing pattern represents the beligerence of saddam and george w. and my dead father that haunts me in my sleep"

NakedApe		2002-11-09 11:29:15 PM

Does this meant that if I think my dick is too short I'm artistic?

MacPhistoGDS		2002-11-09 11:30:30 PM

I'll buy it. I've got several friends who are majoring in art. They are all psycho about their bodies. I attribute a lot of it to the artistic eye. They see the beauty and imperfections in everything they look at. Artists are perfectionists, they obsess about it. It doesn't suprise me that they would obsess about the (im)perfections in thier bodies.

FredGarvin		2002-11-09 11:59:27 PM

As someone who has been a professional artist for 20 years, I can tell you there's no such thing as an art career.

LuckyPierre		2002-11-10 12:06:58 AM

I think that it's actually a link between the chronically underemployed and body image dysmorphia.

For some reason, people who finish college with a whopping debt and no job prospects all start to obsess about their double chins. Strangest damn thing.

rightmindx		2002-11-10 12:48:20 AM

MacPhistoGDS:

That was a really intelligent, thoughtful comment. My hat is off to you.

BlossomBubblesButtercup		2002-11-10 12:57:18 AM

Study Reveals Asshats Capitalize Every Farking Word When the FArQ Says Not To

briandead1083		2002-11-10 01:52:14 AM

hmm... either I'm effing hot or I'm mediocore artist... hmm...

miketheconnell		2002-11-10 04:45:29 AM

As an art major, I don't agree with this. But that's on a persoanl level. I could see how soem of my peers could have this "problem." And as for artists being stereotypically metallly ill, that's bunk. I have no such problems myself... hey, gimme another six pack.

BlossomBubblesButtercup		2002-11-10 05:45:33 AM

I'm an artist. I'm a writer. And I'm on anti-depressants. Go figure. :)

jeff3step		2002-11-10 09:39:27 AM

Sometimes my butt itches.

IronChefRocks		2002-11-10 10:08:07 AM

My favorite paragraph in the article? From the NIMH: "I think the initial premise and hypothesis is flawed...and I think they're making some pretty big leaps" to connect an appreciation of aesthetics with a preoccupation with imagined defects, she [Dr. Kathy HoganBruen] said.

You can find a correlation between anything. Doesn't necessarily make them related.

Cleckmoon		2002-11-10 07:34:10 PM

I'm (kinda) an artist, but I dont have body image problems. I do have one problem, though. I have a weird kinda mental disease called Aspergers Syndrome. It's rare in girls, and i've only realy know about it for a year, so it's kinda weird to deal with.

Art helps, though. Everyone in the basement ('Art Center') is as weird or weirder then I am.

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