News of Somatoform Disorders

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Okay, so here's the thing. I'm 16 and in high school in England and i'm a guy. I hate myself. Everything about myself. I just think when i look in the mirror that i shouldn't see the face i do and i always feel empty inside, like there's nothing to me, hollow or even poisonous.

When i was younger i was really overweight and wore glasses, people always told me i was hideous and disgusting, ...

I am one of these people that is definitly ugly, with my ugly big nose, disgusting white, spotty skin, fat face and stupid frizzy hair...anyway i am told that im wrong and that i have BDD, which i think is actually bull...is anyone else driven crazy by how different lights make you look worse? for example i look really hideously in my bathroom mirror where it is very light and this makes me think i ...

I'm a 19 year old male. My focus is primarily my hair. It's very, very, curly, extremely curly, in fact. When I was younger my hair was straighter, but when I grew up in high school is began to curl uncontrollably. From 9th grade to 11th grade, I had a group of friends that I was very close with. None of us were in a clique and none of us ever felt the need to ...

Hi, I broke down and went for cosmetic reasons, not surgery, I admitted to the surgeon I had BDD and he said, he's very nice, 'why are you in my office then'? I explained everything to him, didn't even mean to break and cry~ personal, and he said I should go to the treatment center at the end of the month and he could take my money if he wanted,to, but it should be treated ...

this is the first topic i start, um... i dont have a specific reason to be doing this except im an idiot who is very bored and i feel like my body dysmorfia has just been triggered again and... i wish i could cry my eyes out for a few hours and then be fine but i cant do that because apparently ive run out of tears no matter how hard i try to cry, ...

I am a kind of short guy (five foot eight ) and everyone in my family is tall. I kind of have a napoleon complex, and everytime I feel something on my body is small/unmasculine, I go into a crazy depression. Im getting cosmetic leg lengthening surgery in a year for my height to become 5 foot 11, but I am very very depressed about my short stubby fingers. My palms are large, but my ...

Hi I'm new. Im female and I've had BDD since I saw about 12. It started in Highschool, well I actually think I can link it back to earlier than that. I remember feeling this way when i was still in Primary school, right at the end of it, I started to think "I dont look like these other girls" and in highschool, People used to call me a man and ugly my fiends used ...

Hi, is there anyone in here with muscle dysmorphia? I found an old thread about it but don't even know if the people are still around.

How do you know when you actually have it? If a person is always looking at muscle magazines with professionals built like the Hulk, they might think that's the ideal physique to work for. And until you get there, you'll always think you're "small". So where is the line ...

There is an article about my BDD in some South London newspapers but you can view it from my website here: http://www.swestwood.com/southlondon.pdf Hope that's of interest.