Posted on 07/15/2022 10:55:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Therapists like Maggie Osinski know a thing or two about these bodily fixations. “Body dysmorphia is essentially a preoccupation with perceived flaws in one’s physical appearance that causes a significant amount of emotional distress,” Osinski, an eating disorder specialist in Brooklyn, New York, told HuffPost. “Like most mental health disorders, the cause of body dysmorphia is due to a variety of factors, including environmental, psychological and neurobiological factors.”
Body dysmorphia is the general term used by many who have experienced these feelings, but it’s also part of a clinical diagnosis known as body dysmorphic disorder that affects about 1 in 50 people, according to the International OCD Foundation.
“BDD is a mental health diagnosis that is an anxiety disorder characterized by overthinking and a preoccupation over a person’s perceived physical flaw ― one often unnoticed by others ― which leads to compulsive behaviors that can impair a person’s life,” said Gretchen Hudson, a therapist from Massachusetts who specializes in self-esteem and eating disorders.
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I fixate on my beer belly a lot.
But then I drink a beer (or 12) and I’m all better.
They go stand on their heads. That way, everything looks about right to them. Then they write a learned article about it.
I feel like I should exercise more but then I lay down until that feeling goes away.
“Psychology as a profession” seems to be a bug light for people with emotional problems.
I get plenty of exercise curling 12 ouncers!
My son has body dysmorphia so badly. He’s fixated on going bald. Then he fixates on thinking he’s too skinny.
It hampers him in life.
It started in middle school and has gotten worse. It makes me sad!
“But then I drink a beer (or 12) and I’m all better.”
Hey, me too.
If I feel a little dysmorphic I just watch a few seconds of CNN or congress on C-SPAN and I’m all better.
It comes from a culture where perfection is lauded and implied to be achievable.
Seems like people are afraid no one will like them if they aren’t “perfect”, whatever that is.
Someone needs to come out and straight out challenge people on that.
goto a doc and tell them you want them to cut yer arm off and you’ll finally be happy and your true self
NO HONEST DOCTOR WOULD DO IT!!!
now, ask-em to cut yer tail off...
no problem.
“Body Dysmorphia”
We used to call that “you think you look bad”.
Therapists with “body dismorphia” (AKA sexual identity disorder) probably eat some psilocybin mushrooms and MDMA pills.
Oh... I mistook body dismorphia for something else that’s in the news too much. Never mind. ;)
I have body dismorphia, thinking that I look old. The remedy: once every few months (all that I can tolerate these days), drink a beer and look in the mirror again. All better. :)
. . . wit roughly the same effect on them as a bug light is on bugs.
Those fields attract slackers/sub standard people.
No shortage of preoccupation with perceived flaws of late when they run out of theirs then the try to blame others of having them.
It’s how the land of woke and was created
Why do they even say this is a thing? They bend over and pretend that homosexuality and “transgender” issues are perfectly normal. But then if someone has a fixation on their body or body part, suddenly that’s a problem?
Almost like the inmates are running the asylum!
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