News of Body Dysmorphic Disorder Forum

I logged on to see what people are writing about and see if I had many replies to my post in April. There has been one post in the last 5 months. I can't believe it. This used to be a really popular board, there are 65 pages, over 2500 topics going back 18 years.

Any ideas why no one ever posts any more? Surely BDD still is a very real thing for so many ...

A front one had crumbled off 3mm from the bottom, so I filed it straight and filed the other to match it. Now my teeth are blunt and short and I want to have them pulled out. I need a shady dentist or the balls to do it myself. I don't have money for bonding, and it wouldn't make a difference, because I'd know the teeth under it were wrong. I can't think of anything ...

Is your BDD basically just a fear of being ugly? i.e. you worry and are self conscious of perceived flaws that you believe are ugly or people will judge you as ugly for? Are you self conscious and hate being seen because you fear people thinking you are ugly?
If so doesn’t BDD actually not target the real fear but is stuck focusing on one of the bi products of the fear?

I would love to find some help about how to overcome being self conscious of my looks. I thought I finally found what my problem is when I read about BDD but I then I read that BDD is about imagined ugliness and imagined flaws. Does anyone know what it is called if you are self conscious of your looks and a real flaw such as a big nose?
Why is there no literature, books ...

Hi,
has anyone experienced BDD when its about someone else?
A family member a stranger a partner?
It seems to be rare , also have OCD as well as BDD so its confusing is it my ocd ataching to people I love? As OCD seems to attached everything I enjoy "my hobbies , health like been able to go to the gym now bdd on my loved ones. It's just like I'm finding the same ...

Schizoid Narcissist is Not Covert Narcissist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arPU91dtx9U&t=72s
1. Do you see yourself in any of the descriptions of the four sub-categories?
2. Is this in Vaknin’s Malignant Self-Love, or is it a new idea he’s come up with after this book’s publication?
3. If it’s new, is there a transcript or text version, preferable printable?
4. Do you strongly reject this theory?
5. Do you doubt it?
6. Do ...

Hi,

I’ve posted on this forum on and off over the last few years and after coming back from a hiatus, it appears mostly everyone has gone… I wonder what happened.

if their anxiety comes from just feeling flat out ugly? or is it body dysmorphia or what?

Allow me to elaborate...

Throughout school I always felt like the ugly duckling and was told as much. I did get boyfriends after I dyed my strawberry blonde hair brown and started wearing makeup. When I got to the point where it was time to start working I felt so much anxiety about being around people, because I ...

Hi all.

Here is some useful info, I think. There seems to be a significant link between BDD and childhood trauma. There is a recent scientific article on this, “Childhood maltreatment and trauma is common and severe in body dysmorphic disorder” . And there are similar studies.

I don't know if this forum is active anymore but people with BDD certainly need to address this topic. Not least because there has been some significant progress ...

Hi all, I am posting partly to get this off my chest, but also to seek reassurance.

I am 27 and have probably had BDD for a long time, but only diagnosed within the last three years.

The obsessive thoughts have mostly centred on facial features, but for the past few months it has moved to my hands, and it is becoming unbearable.

I am a tall man with objectively small hands. They are probably ...