#face dysmorphia

[yearningsaphic]

Does anyone else look in the mirror long enough and examine your features to the point where you start to get physically nauseous? Just me? Ok

[mymindgoes-suicidal]

I just wanna hide, so nobody can see me ever again. I want to rip my face off, I don't want to have a face. Not this face. I want another body or no body at all. I don't want to be me.

[mimsyaf]

Oh my darlings, I was just reading this sad article about girls doing “age preventing skincare” at age 12. TWELVE!!!

My sweethearts, some day if you live long enough you will be in your forties and your choices will be 1. middle-aged and well-moisturized (if you have enough time and money to maintain this) 2. middle-aged and kinda wrinkly (it me) or 3. unlined but oddly puffy and taut (again, takes time and money to achieve). All are perfectly fine ways of being a person in their forties.

What you will never be when you are in your forties (or fifties etc.) no matter what you do now, is truly youthful looking. Time comes for us all, my darlings. So just… maybe… don’t torture yourselves? There’s so much LIVING to do. Fuck glass skin this and dolphin skin that. Just try to become AT PEACE IN YOUR OWN SKIN, no matter what it looks like. Something I’m still working on!! That’s what lasts.

I have only one friend my age who stays eternally young in her Facebook photos. Absolutely stunning, never ages a day. Her skincare secret? Ten years ago, she accidentally ran a red light and wrapped her moped around a pickup truck.

I miss her every day.

I bless you: more life. Wrinkles and all.

[sanjiwifer]

[karineverse]

Yay like comic thing with song lyrics:3

The song itself

(slight vent but don't worry)

Teach me how to be okay...

...I don't wanna downplay my emotions.

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[dramajunkyy]

[sometimesraven]

Tip for people who struggle with body image issues

When someone takes a photo of you and you hate the way you look, especially if it's a professional one, check their other portrait photographs. If every single one of them looks stunning to you, and you know the photographer has no reason to paint you in a bad light, yours probably look fine too <3

[chickenwrapsandjuulpods4]

i hear everyone talking about body dysmorphia and have grown up w so many friends/family members who have struggled w body image but i have never once met someone who has this issue w their face to the extent i do. yes im fine w my body and yes im so thankful for that but no one will ever understand the way i feel about this face. it's so embarassing to walk around with this thing on me. to me, it looks like i was born with some sort of deformation and honestly i wish i could say that rather than just nah i was born this way for some reason. it literally feels like walking around with a neon green clown wig that i can't take off my head. i've accepted life with it and that i can't get rid of it but that doesn't make it any less humiliating. i don't believe in a god but if i did i would hate them for making me this way. it's also annoying bc i have the balls to go out n hang with people but i will never b able to do certain teenage girl activities w my friends. i can't dress up w them or do photoshoots or take silly selfies. i don't know anyone else who deals w this issue and it makes everything so lonely. at least with bd there r a lot of ppl talking about/dealing with it. when i used to deal with it i had so many people there for me and relating to me. now when i talk about my fd people are just like "...what? ive never heard of that" like BRUH (also ik techincally fd is just a form of bd but u know what i mean)

[theforgottendaydreamer]

me on a random tuesday night realising i'm actually not the ugliest, most deformed being on the planet and that i look somewhat okay

(i have severe dysmorphia and i'm going to change my mind in a minute)

[emos-at-ihop]

I got annoyed that when looking for relatable body dysmorphia memes that I only ever see shit like “sometimes, I don’t like how I look in a photo,” so I made hyper-specific bdd memes to demonstrate what bdd can actually do to a person lmao

[goldtearsapollo]

Body dysmorphia has ruined my life. It’s weird to even call it dysmorphia, cuz I’m just ugly… and way more obsessive about it compared to other ugly people. I don’t understand how they can be happy or ok. It’s the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think about before I fall asleep. Im aware of it all day, just as I’d be aware of thirst. It controls me completely. I’m a shut in. I don’t even want my own family to see me. I‘m in my own personal hell and am wounded in the same way everyday. And no matter how much I vent, journal, or cry, when I’m done, nothing has changed… I’m still sitting at the bottom of the same pit exasperated. Living is an exhausting nightmare.

[apples4miya]

Suffering from the worst face dysmorphia I’ve ever had. I can’t tell if I’m truly pretty or not. Constantly trying to find imperfections in other people so I can somehow relate but finding none and feeling singled out. Why do my eyes look this way, is my face shape ugly? My lips are too big- it’s not attractive on me. Why does everyone else look so pretty?I feel like a freak. I want to be perceived as beautiful and elegant. Is this what I really look like?

[sebthedead]

The fogged mirror- Shadowed figure-

Unthinkable, cruel curse-

Shape of obscurity- Face

tainted, warped, malformed-

Pieces of clay- some call skin.

Gaze of disgust, never vanity-

An anemic stare, beyond repair-

Till blood runs dry, Horrored passion.

[divine-skyline]

We need more arms and eyes on our body and less face

[azsdiary]

Being un photogenic makes me want to pick up and leave the internet instead Of spreading positivity andGods word. It’s mind games bc why do I look so weird - and it’s hard bc I can’t be the content creator I see irl . I have to represent this woman with a completely different face to mine. Who is she? And why does she want my life? Y’all (Lanisha Cole and Pharrell Williams in Frontin)

[haramkhor666]

I’m scared and I’m lonely and I’m scared.

I’m young and supposed to be thriving but all I can think of is my face, my body, my skin. is it supposed to look that way? am I supposed to feel like ripping of all the flesh until I’m nothing but broken bones and tears? am I supposed to feel like throwing up when I look at myself? Am I supposed to constantly compare and compare and compare till all I’m left with is wet pillows? sometimes I want to go out in the woods and scream and scream and scream. youth is meant to blinding, beautiful, flourishing, best time of our lives I know. but all I can think of is my face. I have friends, I have fun and I’m all laughter and smiles at school but the second I’m alone it all comes crashing down. It’s not a facade really, cause that happiness is momentary but true. But when I’m alone everything feels wrong. I feel wrong. My face, my body, my thoughts, my personality, everything feels wrong. As if my existence itself is wrong, that god has made some fatal mistake in me that I was never meant to be alive. Was I destined for this life of misery? Why can’t I be normal.

I’m scared and I’m lonely and I’m scared.

Please, help.