How to know if you have body dysmorphic disorder #shorts

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[casual]

You know it's serious when you see very attractive people have it and destroy their looks because of it.

[MsMouthy]

I’ve suffered this since childhood. If anyone else is suffering, know you’re not alone. We deserve to love ourselves. I hope we can all heal one day ❤

[crono]

Most people aren't born to think like that. It's how society has treated them that has caused that line of thinking

[lou]

It’s exhausting. I hate overthinking, and it’s my major coping mechanism. I get so tired of my brain. I can’t find healthy relationships because I can’t imagine someone being able to love me. It started in 1999, and to be honest, it’s wearing me down. If I don’t get help I think it will eventually get the best of me.

[skylardustin]

Not only that, but I genuinely don’t believe people when they compliment me. I wish I did, and it’s not something you can control
[UPDATE] I started taking antidepressants and now I don’t feel such a heavy impact from body dysmorphia 🙏

[MEOWrZ_]

Whenever I feel confident (which I thought I did) there's always that ONE PERSON THAT MAKES YOU UNCONFIDENT.

[lonie]

How I see myself is directly connected to my bipolar. From thinking I am awkward looking and ugly to feeling like I am incredibly beautiful.

[allie]

For me it’s only in my face like I look at myself in the mirror multiple times a day and take pictures of my face in different angles hoping it will get better. But some days I just avoid mirrors completely and just feel the need to smash any mirrors I walk past. I also do useless face exercise and tape my nose and lips so I won’t have to see them.

[DIA--_]

For me it’s not a specific facial feature I see different from reality, it’s my whole face. I wake up with a different face every day. This has happened ever since I was a kid and I assumed it was normal until recently. I don’t know what my face actually looks like.

[chiusaperferie]

I get mad when people tell me i don t have that flaw i notice. I feel frustrated cause I think that they are lie, plus i feel like they can t understand me.

[Weeflowerofscotland]

I have BDD. I have struggled since I was 17, I’m now 47. Although I have medication and practice CBT and see a therapist, it has reared it’s ugly head again with me being peri menopausal. It’s a living Hell. All I want is to not think I’m hideous every hour of every day .

[orieking]

What helped my BDD more than OCD medication or years of therapy (which both did help, don't get me wrong) was the book *"UNDERSTANDING BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER an essential guide"* by Katharine A. Phillips, MD

[bossyboots]

As someone who gets suicidal BDD when I get deeply triggered, I would like to hear you talk more in depth about this. I rarely come across anyone talking about BDD and when they do they aren't well informed.

I can go years without incident, then I'll have an intense trauma triggered and I feel so hideous I want to die to end the anguish and emotional pain from it. In the past Ive had to do things like cover all the mirrors in the home, especially the bathroom mirror, to keep functional.

Because of the intensity of the reaction I believe the BDD stems from something(s) done to me as a child, but the memories are blocked. I can't access them. I think that trauma(s) was then compounded by an abusive mother who put my entire value on my appearance (which of course never measured up). But I haven't been able to figure out more than that bc it doesn't seem like a well understood condition and is often dismissed by, "I know, I hate the way I look sometimes" comments. Which is like saying to someone with debilitating migraines, "yeah, I get headaches sometimes too." And I'm like, sure, you may be insecure now and then, but you dont end up in fetal position sobbing over it. We are not talking about the same thing at all.

[vivid]

I recall everyone calling me a very beautiful child and got a lot of attention for curly hair when i was young , but as I grew up my face just morphed into something different, everyone started saying i changed and my mom who is pretty straightforward says i got uglier over time and also my school friends bullied me for having curly hair and i also have dark circles now and hyperpigmentation. It's either i have it or I'm just ugly

[carriehunt]

This is me! I have lost 178lbs and have lots of lose skin and I still feel like I’m 321lbs! I don’t see myself as small or having lost that much weight even though everyone tell me I look great I don’t feel it at all! ❤

[gianasantarossa]

Every time I go out with someone I trust I ask them at least a few times "do I look ok? do I seem normal? Is the xyz not too visible?"

[skittlepuff]

My grandma bullied me as a kid (pre k-middle school) for being chubby and whenever I would eat she would comment on it being a lot in front of everyone. It wasn’t a lot. She just ate like a bird. My mom would tell me I had to lose weight when goinh clothes shopping on top of her berating me for “dressing like a boy” it was double trauma. I over heard her talking to my step dad about stretch marks she saw all the way down my back in the dressing room that day. Even tho they were from getting taller and all my tall skinny relatives have them too. She talked about me with fear and disgust. I was 8. So clothes shopping is not fun for me. Then in HS I got super athletic and I had a total glow up and looked attractive and I got on sports teams and was popular all of a sudden right at the start of high school. My mom acted as if my weight loss was the best accomplishment I’ve ever done before. Well then one day some guy said I should eat a sandwich on one of my instagram pics and I was 14 wondering when people will stop talking about my body. Even when I was athletic and in shape, I felt like I was still fat unless I physically saw my reflection in the mirror and when the mirror was gone, I didn’t believe I was skinny and athletic anymore. I knew I was but actually believing it and knowing it with confidence was not happening. And if anyone would have said anything about me being fat then, I would have gone into a whole panic and locked myself inside the house. But nobody ever did. That only happened recently when I realized I got fat again without realizing. Now I am focusing on the same healthy workout and diet that got me so in shape the first time. I’m 23. Covid made me gain 40 pounds. This time I’m not going to let myself care about whatever anyone else thinks. Even my family. And I’m going to practice and work on that. I think I might be traumatized about this for life though sense how hard and how bad and how often I was criticized by not only my mom, but my grandma, all the kids at school and my siblings. Funny how now I’m the most attractive one and I am athletic and they all love me now.

[shaki]

I absolutely love your channel. I have very severe BDD and often see the disorder being used in casual terms on platforms like TikTok. This disorder is no joke. It's ruined my life. But thank you so much for covering this topic without any incorrect facts.

[hoosfoosfull]

Failed to thrive as a child and grew up so extremely skinny that I was bullied in school and by siblings. As a teen/young adult it morphed into BDD and as a mature adult I question my worth about it every day. It's a death sentence.

[brilah]

I don't know if I have BDD but I'm really insecure about my face to the point where it is physically tiring sometimes to look at. I feel like I don't really know what I look like and I use to go as far as using a flashlight on my face in the dark every night to see what I looked like in white light because maybe that would show me what I really looked like. I wish I didn't care what I looked like at all because it's so draining