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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition in which a person is preoccupied with one or more perceived flaws in their appearance.
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Symptoms include feeling embarrassed, ashamed, and anxious, avoiding social situations, and obsessing over minor or nonexistent flaws.
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Causes may include a family history of the disorder, negative experiences, and abnormal brain function or chemistry.
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Risk factors include having relatives with BDD or OCD, negative life experiences, and being a teenager or young adult.
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Complications include low self-esteem, social isolation, depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, and substance abuse.
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Treatment options include cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, and lifestyle changes.
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Body dysmorphic disorder is a mental health condition in which you can't stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or flaws in your appearance — a flaw that appears minor or can't be seen by others. But you may feel so embarrassed, ashamed and anxious that you may avoid many social situations.
Body dysmorphic disorder - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health problem. If you have BDD, you may be so upset about the appearance of your body that it gets in the way of your ability to live normally. Many of us have what we think are flaws in our appearance. But if you have BDD, your reaction to this “flaw” may become overwhelming.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others.
People of any age can have BDD, but it's most common in teenagers and young adults.
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) - NHS
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition that involves an overwhelming preoccupation with one's body and appearance. Symptoms of BDD include extreme preoccupation with minor or nonexistent flaws in one's body and/or face, spending an excessive amount of time covering perceived flaws with makeup, different outfits, or new hairstyles, buying products or getting plastic surgery to alter one's appearance, checking the mirror excessively or avoiding mirrors, trying to hide certain body parts with clothing or accessories, repetitive behaviors, needing constant reassurance from others about physical appearance, worrying excessively about appearing "ugly" or unattractive, and constantly comparing one's looks to others. Treatment options for BDD include cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, and lifestyle changes such as avoiding school, social events, dating, or work.
Body Dysmorphia: Definition, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment - Verywell Health
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Dysmorphia Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster Medical Definition Entries Near Show more Save Word dysmorphia noun dys· mor· phia dis-ˈmȯr-fē-ə 1 : dysmorphism craniofacial dysmorphia 2 : body dysmorphic disorder…
Dysmorphia Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster Medical
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Body dysmorphic disorder ( BDD ), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is…
Body dysmorphic disorder - Wikipedia
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Dysmorphia affects far more people and in far more ways than commonly appreciated. Dysmorphia refers to our capacity to perceive characteristics about ourselves in distorted and dysfunctional...
The Many Faces of Dysmorphia | Psychology Today
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Body dysmorphia is not low self esteem gone mad. Its roots in clinical anxiety and relationship to obsessive compulsive disorder, the mental health charity MIND explains, mean that it's...
7 Signs That Somebody Has Body Dysmorphia - Bustle
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