Body Dysmorphic Disorder: DSM-5 Criteria and Clinical Features

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[@megs4193]

Is there anyone talking about bdd living up to other people's expectations, mine started randomly in my 40s after random swelling of my face for a year, it left my skin altered and all I could think I was now an embarrassment, a let down, I may frighten other people, especially if they had children, yes I wanted to commit suicide, I seen many doctors, I finally seen an ocd specialist, before, I wouldn't leave the house, I checked all day every day, I cried constantly, all I ever got told when I was young was isn't she pretty, what a pretty smile you have lovely eyes, you have beautiful skin, I didn't care, when my ex brother in law introduced me to friends so proudly this is my brothers ex, I felt like, I have to stay like this to make others happy, to connect to people, I was so scared of not being able to do that, I left the house only when I had to, I was always uncomfortable, always checking and asking or apologising about how I looked 🥺😞 after 2 years I had to reach out for help or I wouldn't be here, now I'm 52, I use happy music, or serious social events to disrupt intrusive thoughts, I started connecting with random people that I was able to help on CZcams in comments, great doctors and professionals that would praise me on my insight slowly repairing my idea on what I thought I had to be to help other people, I had to be very very proactive, it's probably a good idea to separate people into different groups, because the thousands of interviews I've watched with sufferers of bdd usually don't have the money for plastic surgery, and leaving the house to go to a clinic straight up is terrifying. Now maybe that's just the people I've watched, of course that not everyone, but I can't imagine, unless something else is going on that many bdd patients feel good enough to get angry at a plastic surgeon , I wouldn't have, even when an estitichen treated me like absolute garbage, I just cried, and panicked because she took of all my make-up, and I wanted to get out of there, and had to wait for my son, she took $180 of my pension took a heap of horrible photos of things I wasn't worried about and told my I could have my own blood injected into my face for new things she pointed out, even though I told her when I got there how seriously crippling this was, I thought she'd help, she saw dollar signs 😢🥺🥺 that was incredibly common. Thank God for Anlicare and the kindness of the Australian service the NDIS I've only moved forward 🙂.

[@woodman9551]

I was reluctantly diagnosed with BDD because it has manifested its way to a preoccupation with every single inch if my body

[@PK-hg6gl]

Great source of information about BDD. The statistic about the potential lethality of BDD was shocking.