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Can olive oil ruin your face? Make it fat and "bubbly"? When you apply it as a moisturizer once everyday at night before you sleep, can it change your facial structure?

I KNOW my nose is huge and disgusting, there is absolutely NO doubt about it. I finally figured out the reason everyone hates me is because I'm ugly. I receive comments on being called UGLY all the time. I don't think i'm ugly simply because I'm not attractive (oh please), but because I am ACTUALLY ugly. A lot of people just can't understand this, since BDD mostly affects average-looking people who are whiney because they ...

I know I have OCD, depression, low self-esteem, low self-worth, insecurity, inferiority issues and social anxiety. I have been diagnosed with bdd, but I think it's only because the doctors misinterpret me.

MY story is:
I never got attention for my looks but always thought I was nice looking. My sister would get told countless times that she is attractive but people would never say it to me. I couldn't see the difference between us, ...

Just discovered this article...I know its been up for a month but to anyone who hasn't seen it, you should give it a look.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/111 ... ng-043013/

Any thoughts?

Please somebody tell me your body will change as you get older. I have lived with this pear shaped body for so long. I had to go to the mall twice this week to look for dresses and I havent been shopping in almost a year because of my bdd. To make it worse I'm trying on dresses and my husband is like, "yea, I see what you mean about looking hippy in dresses." And ...

Would it be possible for me to wear a phantom like mask in public. Not all the time just when I am in face to face conversations. I would wear it when I'm waiting in lines for sure. It would help but of course it would freak people out.

I've noticed that pictures of myself from when I was really young (before I developed BDD) aren't quite as ugly/unfortunate-looking. Yeah, I still can find some flaws on my face in them, but I don't mind looking at them as much and some are actually pretty ok, but any pictures of me from around the time I started thinking I was ugly up until the present I look hideous and I want to throw them ...

I've been improving a fair bit but I've been struggling quite a fair bit with BDD really.I do see a number of health professionals&they're all great but the severity of the illness still does impact me quite a fair bit.I struggle so much of course with the mirror,any reflections&many of my habits of course are OCD related.I won't go into any real great detail but so often the illness has impacted me so badly to ...

I live in Canada and it seems that there’s not a lot of resources/forums/support here. I’ve been trying to get an appointment with a therapist and been unsuccessful so far – I’ve been turned down by 3 therapists who told me BDD is a very specific issue and needs to be addressed by a therapist who’s a “specialist”….I am on a waiting list for one therapist, but that could take months before she has a ...

Thank you for this forum, thanks to all of you fellow BDD sufferers for being here. No where else could I find where I can see myself in every post. Finally people like me! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I struggle with all the things most on this board do, the endless self-hatred, anger, social phobia, no life because of this crap and I am just so glad somebody else knows what its like.