Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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  • umachanxo
    umachanxo Posts: 926 Member
    I was bullied a lot as a tweenager, and I suffered from this. Even now, I still have occasions where it starts to act up, but over many years I've pushed forward and moved past it as best as I can.
  • sarahc001
    sarahc001 Posts: 477 Member
    Anyone out there see this? Somehow it helps me with the perception thing, since I am always more critical of myself...you can input height and weight and see a bunch of pictures of real women "your" size...sometimes it just helps to see a different face on the body. Best of luck.

    http://www.mybodygallery.com/
  • EngineerPrincess
    EngineerPrincess Posts: 306 Member
    Preeeety sure I have this, but I don't want to say I do since I've never been diagnosed or anything. I don't exactly look in the mirror and think I'm an elephant but I see fat arms and legs and want to lose weight, which doesn't make sense considering I'm 5'8 and 121.
  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-UwqFKA This might not help but it is certainly worth a watch.

    Anyone know how to make the link active? xD

    I cried so much the first time I saw this a couple years ago
  • jonesygetshealthy
    jonesygetshealthy Posts: 66 Member
    oh goodness. I have dysmorphia pretty severely, from what I'm told. Sometimes I feel it too.
    I started at 195lbs and then had a very severe breakup. Before the breakup- I was absolutely fine with my body. I was confident even without clothes on around my exboyfriend... but after we broke up and I moved back into my folks' house, things became different. Although I got down to 175lbs and when I looked in mirrors or even window surfaces... I would swear I saw someone 4x larger than what I was. I even drew what size I thought I was on a large paper, and my friends said it was really out of proportion. I'm down to 157lbs now, and the dysmorphia comes only in waves now. Some days I will see that I'm only a bit overweight, but other days it's hard for me to even leave the house. I have a new boyfriend who is 100% supportive of me but sometimes it wears on him when I express what I think is my honest truth about my size. My family and friends are helping, and I've also joined a "body positive" community on tumblr, which looks to promote actual, unedited human bodies. I found this helps a whole lot!

    I've gotten better with time :)
  • JakquiBug
    JakquiBug Posts: 6 Member
    I have suffered from this for years. It's a horrible feeling. There are good days and bad days. My weight see sawed back and forth over the years between medications and eating disorders. I am now at a lower weight than I've been at in years but I can't see it. It's very frustrating. I am always comparing myself to other women. Even people who are obviously overweight look thinner to me than I do to myself. I hate it. I started at 160 pounds and I now weight 117 but I don't see a change at all.

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