Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Totally!! But hopefully that will fade when my weight does.

i have this and it is destroying my life. I look in the mirror and see only faults. I call myself the meanest ugliest words. And compare myself and give myself a hard time for not being perfect. I look in the mirror and hate what i see i see the more ugliest girl in the world from head to toe. And i am always paranoid about the way i look and feel like my husband sees the 'ugly' image in the mirror that i see. And it hurts me so much. I remember taking a self esteem workshop in school and learning about this disorder and i always knew i had it. Just dont know how to be better and change this outlook. If i get this solved then i think alot of other problems in my life would be solved as well.

I can relate to THIS. I Never really remember liking anything about the way I look, if ever someone gives me a compliment I automatically think they r lying and just trying to be nice. I have never considered that I have this? I am so used to feeling this way I thought it was normal or just shltty self esteem.

yes. oh my gosh, all the time. it gets to that point where it is hard to be happy with yourself and your body

my husband "claims" I suffer from this... This morning, I went to hop in the shower, hubby walked in and said "WOW!!!!! you are looking SKINNY!!"! and I said 0.0 "wth are you talking about, I still have so much to lose".... I don't C what he sees... and honestly, I'm glad he doesn't c what I c! I'm pretty sure that he's a chubby chaser 'cuz skinny I am not, but regardless I'm thrilled he sees whatever the hell he does

omg! i experience the same thing with my husband! and when i was 40 pounds lighter i still saw myself as fat with fat arms, and i look in the mirror and see a huuuuuuge person in my reflection. But when i look back at pictures i am shocked as to how tiny i was.

i have this and it is destroying my life. I look in the mirror and see only faults. I call myself the meanest ugliest words. And compare myself and give myself a hard time for not being perfect. I look in the mirror and hate what i see i see the more ugliest girl in the world from head to toe. And i am always paranoid about the way i look and feel like my husband sees the 'ugly' image in the mirror that i see. And it hurts me so much. I remember taking a self esteem workshop in school and learning about this disorder and i always knew i had it. Just dont know how to be better and change this outlook. If i get this solved then i think alot of other problems in my life would be solved as well.

I can completely relate to this. My bdd is not centred around how fat I think I am but around my face and how ugly I think it is. I used to spend 3hours every morning scrubbing away at my face in the shower and then putting on huge amounts of makeup to cover it up and was terrified of getting caught with no makeup on. The amount of times I missed lectures and things because I couldn't bring myself to leave the house looking so 'ugly', I'd have to get back in the shower and re-do it all over again. I thought that was the way I was!

Then I read an article about BDD and realised that maybe I have the same problem and therefore maybe I can fix it? SO I went to the doctor and told them, who referred me to a psychiatrist who diagnosed me with it. I did 16weeks of CBD and it has helped so much, I would really reccommend it. My confidence is constantly growing, I can go for a run in the mornings with yesterdays makeup on and not be worried about it and I havent had an anxiety attack in more than a year now - whereas before they happened a few times a week. I'm not completely recovered as these things take time, but I am very content with the way things are now

Even if your not sure if you have it, no one is supposed to feel anxious and uncomfortable with themselves - it is a problem which can be treated and overcome. I would always reccommend seeing a doctor and getting help, whats there to lose??

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.

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.

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