Power Dysmorphia
Power dysmorphia is a sickness of perception—a fundamental distortion in how we see our own power. It is not a lack of power itself but an inability to recognize and claim it. Like a body dysmorphic disorder where a person sees flaws that aren’t there, power dysmorphia convinces people—especially women—that they are weak, dependent, or at constant risk of attack. This illusion is not accidental. It is cultivated, reinforced, and weaponized to keep people in a state of powerlessness, disconnected from their true source of strength.
Women, in particular, have been systematically conditioned into power dysmorphia. The truth is that women are power. Not just powerful—power itself. The reason women have been targeted, controlled, and subdued throughout history is not because they are weak, but because they are the source. And yet, the culture has stripped them of this knowing, replacing accurate reflections with warped, diminishing mirrors. Instead of seeing themselves as generators of life, creativity, and influence, they have been taught to see themselves as victims, as fragile, as needing permission to exist fully. When a woman is afflicted with power dysmorphia, she does not recognize her own agency. She does not know she is the one holding the energy that others seek. She only feels the ache of scarcity and the gnawing fear that she is not enough.
Power dysmorphia thrives in environments of low energy and high fear. Around 2015 and 2016, as ideological extremism surged and social media amplified collective narratives, power dysmorphia became an epidemic. The perception of power became so skewed that those who possessed real, generative power—especially women who were unapologetically embodied—became targets. Anyone who could remind people of their internal power, particularly through Eros, was swiftly cut down. The ability to access unmediated, self-sustaining power—through orgasm, deep embodiment, or raw expression—was demonized. Those who held the keys to unlocking true power were cast as threats.
The result was a culture of hollow scripts. Social media exploded with pre-programmed ideologies, and people became mouthpieces for propaganda rather than sovereign beings. Women, in particular, became enforcers of their own oppression, turning on each other with ruthless efficiency. Power dysmorphia ensured that they could no longer see themselves or one another accurately. Instead of recognizing a fellow source of power, a woman in dysmorphia sees competition, threat, or enemy. When a woman believes she is powerless, she operates from scarcity. And scarcity breeds destruction.
This is why canceling and shaming—particularly among women—has become so prevalent. It is not because women are inherently cruel. It is because they have been trained to see themselves as lacking. In the absence of true power, they seek control in the only ways available—through social maneuvering, reputation assassination, and ideological purity tests. A powerless woman cannot risk direct conflict, so she strikes under the radar. She engages in character assassination rather than outright battle. She convinces herself that she is upholding morality when, in reality, she is enforcing the very system that keeps her caged.
A society gripped by power dysmorphia is marked by rigid binaries and a complete lack of humor. It is fragile, reactive, and unable to tolerate disruption. Humor is censored because humor requires perspective, and perspective requires power. In this state, the brain’s prefrontal cortex—the seat of reason and discernment—shuts down, while the amygdala, the center of fear and survival, takes over. People no longer think. They react. And in this reactionary state, women turn against one another, mistaking their own sisters for threats.
What makes power dysmorphia so insidious is that it convinces people that their distortions are reality. A woman suffering from power dysmorphia does not know she is suffering. She believes she is right. She believes she is fighting for justice, for safety, for morality. But in truth, she is starving. She has been cut off from the source, and in her desperation, she claws at others rather than reaching for the infinite well within.
The antidote to power dysmorphia is reconnection. It is the radical act of plugging back in. A woman who is connected to her true power does not need to attack, cancel, or destroy. She knows there is enough. She knows she is enough. I have witnessed this transformation firsthand. A woman who was once bitter, reactive, and desperate suddenly shifts when she is reminded of her abundance. The moment she realizes she has access to infinite power, she no longer needs to hoard, control, or lash out. Instead, she wants to share. A full woman gives. An empty woman takes.
Everything—the gossip, the cancel culture, the backstabbing, the ideological warfare—stems from this fundamental disconnection. When women are unplugged from their power, they destroy. When they are plugged in, they create. It is that simple.
Power dysmorphia is not just an individual affliction. It is a societal epidemic. It is what has kept generations of women in a loop of internalized oppression. It is what fuels division, infighting, and self-sabotage. But it is not real. It is an illusion, a trick of distorted perception. The moment a woman truly sees herself—sees her power—the illusion collapses.
And that is what they fear the most.