Tanorexia Is The New Trendy Addiction

Tanorexia Is The New Trendy Addiction

What's the latest dangerous behavior to afflict sorostitutes?
 

Hint: It’s not cocaine and bulimia.
 

Well, it’s not just cocaine and bulimia.
 

It’s tanorexia.
 

A recent study of college students found that more than 25 percent of participants reported symptoms of a tanning dependence. Tanning dependence shares similarities with drug and alcohol addictions.
 

A press release explains more about the study:

Heckman and her colleagues recruited 400 students and other volunteers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia during the spring semester of 2006. Participants took part in an online survey utilizing items adapted from questionnaires used to measure traditional substance abuse and dependence. The measures assess tolerance to tanning (the need to tan increasingly frequently), withdrawal from tanning (discomfort when not having tanned recently), and difficulty controlling the behavior despite awareness of its negative impact such as freckles, wrinkles, pre-cancerous lesions, etc.

The first step is admitting you have a problem, then seeking help.
 

Because a leather purse is pretty, but a leather face not so much.
 

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