I think before one starts to unravel or tame the worst aspects of a disorder like BDD, one has to have a framework for analyzing behaviours and their motivation. I like the concept of three components...

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So every now and then I will see an eyebrow that's out of place with the others ones and pluck it out. Is this picking? I'm trying to shape my eyebrows because I have good growth. I haven't picked any...

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Hello, I am a 70 year old woman who was born with anxiety and depression. I have received help for it as an adult but nothing lasted. Traumas in my life: controlling husband, being diagnosed with a blood...

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Historically, many of us have experienced abandonment and rejection. It maybe that our parents or our parent's parents have recounted stories of how bad their rejection was. I know abandonment was part...

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I have never admitted this to anyone, not even said it out loud to myself. Recently, I was talking to a friend about repressed memories, and the effect they have on your later life, and I realised that...

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I don't think it can be made better. Because what happened was bad. But I think that being listened to. And being believed. Can be incredibly powerful. And that it might be worth telling the truth....

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You've probably looked already. But the stickied thread in Self Harm has some possible ideas, maybe? cutting-self-injury/topic152642.html ...

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I like that.

I'd recommend asking over in family-support/ ...

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Hi readers

2 and half weeks and still not looked at any pornographic material and have resisted the urge to masturbate.

Sex has definitely got better all ready. I never had ED but my erection does...

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