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What causes body dysmorphic disorder?

The cause of body dysmorphic disorder is thought to be a combination of environmental, psychological, and biological factors. Bullying or teasing may create or foster the feelings of inadequacy, shame, and fear of ridicule.

What are the symptoms for body dysmorphic disorder?

You can become obsessed with any part of your body. The most common areas are your face, hair, skin, chest, and stomach.

Symptoms of BDD include:

* Constantly checking yourself in the mirror

* Avoiding mirrors

* Trying to hide your body part under clothes, or makeup

* Constantly exercising or grooming

* Constantly comparing yourself with others

* Always asking other people whether you look OK

* Not believing other people when they say you look fine

* Avoiding social activities

* Having unnecessary plastic surgeries

* Picking at your skin with fingers or tweezers

* Feeling anxious, depressed, and ashamed

Muscle dysmorphia

Muscle dysmorphia is a specific form of BDD. It can cause you to have negative feelings about your build and the appearance of your muscles (either for your entire body or one or more specific places on your body).

What are the complications of body dysmorphic disorder?

People who have BDD are more likely to have certain other mental health conditions, including:

* Anxiety disorders.

* Depression.

* Eating disorders.

* Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

* Substance use disorders (including steroid use disorder in people with muscle dysmorphia).

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

- Can help you manage your BDD symptoms by changing the way you think and behave.

It helps you learn what triggers your symptoms, and teaches you different ways of thinking about and dealing with your habits.

You and your therapist will agree on goals for the therapy and work together to try to reach them.

CBT for treating BDD will usually include a technique known as exposure and response prevention (ERP).

This involves gradually facing situations that would normally make you think obsessively about your appearance and feel anxious.

Your therapist will help you to find other ways of dealing with your feelings in these situations so that, over time, you become able to deal with them without feeling self-conscious or afraid.

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They made the decision to abuse you. None of it is your fault. It doesn’t matter what you did. There is nothing you could have done to deserve it. It’s their fault. Not yours. I promise.

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you deserve to be taken care of, you deserve to feel like you’re not alone in this world

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Stop saying bipolar when you mean broken or unpredictable!

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There is nothing you could have ever done for sexual assault to be your fault. All the fault lies on the assaulter. 

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Life will not always be about survival, it will be about joy

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Here are 2 really good books you can buy off Amazon!!!!!!

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Your mental illness was, is and never will be a flaw. There's no peices to put together because you're not broken.

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I’m psychotic. I mean that literally I experience psychosis.

I think many people don’t understand that while yes talking to myself is a symptom of my psychosis, it’s also one of my best coping skills.

It’s not scary when I mumble to myself in public, it’s me coping in a way that’s safe for you and me.

Reduce stigma for everyone no matter why someone acts like me but like in my case specifically I promise you prefer me when I can talk to myself.

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my childhood experiences with hallucinations, how i rationalized them, and why i didnt tell anyone:

•as early as i can remember i saw colored lights, shapes and zig-zags flash across my vision, i thought this happened to everyone

•when i was about 5 i saw a gray cat run across my kitchen, we didnt have any pets at the time, i asked my older brother about it and he said "that was probably a daydream" even though i didnt conciousley create it and it looked real, i believed him and wrote off other hallucinations as daydreams for years

•when i was about 10 i was looking into a mirror and saw my eyes looking to the side, for some reason i thought mirrors were like screens and figured it was just glitching

•i was raised christian and wrote off a lot of hallucinations as god communicating with me

•when i was about 12 i learned what ASMR was and figured thats what all my tactile hallucinations had been all these years

•at the same age i started using tumblr, and would see emo posts talking about "the voices" (when they were actually just talking about mean thoughts) so i thought things like auditory command hallucinations was just a normal thing every teen experienced

•as i was hallucinating more frequntly i came up with more excuses, maybe i hadnt eaten enough, maybe i hadnt slept enough, maybe my periods and hormones were causing this

•i watched a lot of scary content on youtube and genuinely believed i was haunted by or possesed by demons

•i saw the way people treated psychotics, the way i was told to be careful near the people on the street talking to themselves, the way horror movies portrayed psychotics as danergous, the way i was told that my schizophrenic grandpa was abusive because he was schizophrenic

• the more and more i hallucinated, the more i kept to myself, i didnt want to be treated like that, i feared what would happen to me if people found out, i knew something was wrong with me but i was terrified of letting people know that, i could talk about my anxiety or depression or sometimes cptsd symptoms, but i couldnt talk about my psychosis

i did eventually get a schizophrenia diagnosis at 18, got on antipsychotics that helped a lot, and my family and friends ended up being understanding for the most part, but i spent so much of my life being symptomatic and just excusing it any way i could, i didnt want to want to be psychotic because of the way were treated in the world, but i am, and ive learned to embrace that

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Tito Merello Vilar // Richard Kadrey, Aloha From Hell

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for my fellow psychotics who struggle with thinking someone is in their house, a method I’ve found that really works are these guys:

i put them on my front door and anytime it opens they ring. that way if i think someone has broken in or i see someone who isn’t there i can think back to if the bells have rung, and if they haven’t i can assure myself it’s not real. obviously it’s not fool proof, like if you are prone to auditory hallucinations, but it has really helped me calm down in time to avoid major psychotic breaks. it’s a real lifesaver

nonpsychotics encouraged to rb

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No disorder is inherently evil.

No disorder is inherently abusive.

No disorder is inherently scary.

Stop generalizing folks with stigmatized disorders.

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Men and boys who come forward about any type of abuse they’ve been to are so fucking brave and deserve recognition and validation for that

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aging is the whole point! it’s a privilege afforded to few and I hope you’re lucky enough to experience it!