If there is an actual flaw there - eg Really deformed nose or very ovally egg shaped head and face... What does a therapist/counsellor say? Will they convince the patient into believing its not there or will they be honest with them?
this is what my mom thinks i have but the thing is my issues are true! my hair is thining and i have supper bad scars all over my face and she wont let me deal with it! instead she wants to shove prozac down my throat! so far everyone ive seen in this video are beautiful! this is driveing me nuts!!
@musicmatterstome105...believing great looks will save all my problems, but I know they won't; my mind would then just move onto the next deficiency. Having learned from experience, you need to give less of a shit about other people especially the opposite sex, and focus on loving yourself before you can love anyone else or have meaningful relationships or live a full life. I hope you can read this and take solace and find some peace within yourself.
@musicmatterstome105 also mate, despite all these comments about how superificial our world is, if you actually look objectively, at the facts, you will see that a lot of successful people in government/corporations/research/business are not all models, even in tv and film. It just wouldn't make sense statistically to exclude the great proportion of the population from these positions for something so trivial as looks. I am like you in being intensely critical of myself and believing...
@musicmatterstome105 hi mate, as you state, you may in fact be ugly or you may just be normal looking. I know you want to be super hot but that won't stop you having to work hard each day, go through bad times, lose people, feel shitty from time to time. Being good looking is not the key to all great things, as witnesssed by the testaments of the people in the above video. I just want to add some shades of grey into your world perspective : )
i'm 29 years of age and i definitely suffer from BDD!
i have a complexity called: NOSE!
i'm after a nose job (2009) and I have never been satisfied with how it looks ever since and i'm always confident that it changes and deteriorates, and to tell the truth, it has actually changed (to the extent that i have descried a bump that has never existed before in my nose and it made me highly depressed lately). therefore, it will be safe to say that my worst nightmare has appeared to manifest!
No counselling or medication for me. My flaws are real, and YES this obsession has caused countless psychological problems for me such as extreme social anxiety and chronic depression and has ruined my life in every way IMAGINABLE, but it all stems from a physical problem. And fuck this old age doctors theory that surgery wont make people happier. I KNOW surgery will make me happier. Its either that or suicide. They are my only two choices and no body or anything will ever ever change my mind.
@letsfloataway Just wondering out of curioisty.... What are these physical flaws you have, which you feel can be changed through plastic surgery? Mail me if you want!
bdd is a illness that people suffer in silence, they are ashamed to have these feelings a disease that makes you punish yourself for having it. bdd controls you it slowly destroys you it convinces you not to get help not to confide in friends and family. its not just as simple as i feel ugly thats why there is alot of people attempt suicide and with some of the comments i have read i can understand why they are reluctant to seek help.
I have got told before that I look like certain celebrities and sportsmen. Not in a nasty. abusive or insulting way, just in a general comment kind of way. When I looked up these celebrities, I wasn't pleased by what I saw. When I looked further on google search results, I found out that 2 of the sportsmen that I was told I looked like, had actually being voted into the top 20 ugliest sportsmen in europe.
How can one honestly justify me as having B.D.D. and not just being genuinely ugly?
I like the part where the people who don't have it don't understand what it's like so they criticize the people who do, oh wait that's in the comments section of the video. VV
I'm getting the feeling that they're not fully reporting the full extent of the psychological effects BDD has on these sufferers. Because, okay, she's upset to find these stretch marks "spreading" all over her body, but I can't imagine being so preoccupied with stretch marks that I'd kill myself. I might buy some bio-oil and if it didn't work, get over it. Or if they upset me so much, look into surgery. I think the show should talk about how much they're affected by the "ugliness".
@whatamunter Because your brain is wired a different way doesn't mean that you should criticize others for what they think. They cant help but think that way, thats why its a disorder. Nobody truly understands the disorder besides the sufferers themselves
@2357649827536 I wasn't criticising them, I was criticising the way that the show was made. I think the show should allow us to FULLY understand just how much this disorder affects their brain. It kind of makes it look like they're self-centred people who were are very preoccupied with their looks, when it's -from what I understand- a disease that MAKES them preoccupied with their looks.
Stop being so fucking shallow. There are lots of ugly people and they don't go kill themselves. Do you think these people feel uglier than the ugliest person alive? I don't think so.
@kaptenrobert these people do feel uglier than the ugliest people in the world. i have bdd too. it is terrifying. but it is good thing that i am consious the to the highest level that my symptoms are insane. i know how to handle it and that is why i am still alive. ive been thinking of suicide many times due to bdd. it is super hard to deal with. super hard! but now i know how to handle this shit!
@kaptenrobert The thing is.. it's a disorder.. and it's not being shallow when you HONESTLY see what you see in the mirror. You can't help it, it just happens. And they probably do feel uglier, because in their minds they are. It sounds selfish and shallowe but put your mind where we are.. It sucks to look in the mirror and see somebody who repulses you.. and it's yourself.
@Shehadthedisco No. It's rather an attention-whore disease. Please try to convice me that when they touch their own faces, they feel a quasimodo like face or the face of a burn victim. They might think they're ugly but being ugly is not a reason to want to kill yourself unless you actually deserve it. There are so many really really ugly people in the world for various reason and none of them wants to kill themselves because they learn to live with it. These people disgrace them.
@kaptenrobert Well I'm not going to lie, in you're perspective yours does have a more valid point than mine. I think it's more psychological than anything. They have 'fooled' themselves or their minds into thinking that they look a particular way so infact they do. I do believe it is an excuse for most of the people who are diagnosed with this disease.. but for some they may honestly believe they see something different in the mirror.
I can honestly say that before taking any psychology class, I may have thought something along the lines of: "These girls just need to stop their bitching!" The brain is a funny machine, isn't it?
I'm a guy and I cannot stand any hair on my skin, I have extreme anxiety. I have been diagnosed with a personality disorder and they say its part of that. I've tried to slash my wrists and have self harmed because I can't stand my body hair. I've tried shaving waxing and almost everything. I hate myself so much. Is there anyone else on here that has the same fear of body hair?
BDD is linked to hypothyroidism in some people. I had extreme anxiety, BDD and hypochondria which has all disappeared. I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid and given thyroxine. Not saying that everyone with BDD has an underactive thyroid, but you should definitely get it checked out.
fuck, now i know i have this shit i never knew it was actually some kind of diagnosed shit. ive been hiding the fact for so long because its really embarassing!!! especially since im a guy.
@jovybudd It's not your fault my friend BDD is a horrible condition I've suffered for years myself.I'm a guy by the way and have also felt a sense of shame having it,it's an illness that many sufferers feel is difficult to talk about.I've had three nose jobs and I still hate my nose,I struggle like hell looking in the mirror and shaving,struggle like hell where there are crowds and many young people.It's pure hell and see how the condition drives many sufferers to suicide.
...and moves up a lot more, making my eyes look really assymetrical and just weird. I hate it to be honest and I truly believe that it's not just in my head! Even looking at pictures from when I was younger, I see it. I only noticed it now as a teenager though since I've been growing a lot more. I especially notice my right eye in photos. In the mirror I'm usually 100% fine with myself. The doctor suggested I get botox to relax 1 or some muscles around my eye. I dont know what to do though!
Help? I dont know if i have this or not. I'm a 17 y/o guy and the 1 thing that bothers me is my right eye. I know there is something wrong and i can feel it. I saw a doctor and he noticed that i can lift my right eyebrow a lot lot higher than my left eyebrow (my left eye and eyebrow feel normal. I can only feel something wrong in my right one) Especially when I smile too, the skin under my right eye is a lot more loose and moves up.... (read comment above this for 2nd part)
It also annoys me when beautiful people with acne complain about body dysmorphic disorder.
ACNE IS FIXABLE!!!
It's people like me - who have a poor bone structure and an asymmetrical face. That cannot be fixed, bar major major surgery which is both really expensive and also very very risky. Mine is a real problem, and my only option is taking the risk of plastic surgery by saving loads of money up for it.
@TheJanaKristina It's a good point, as bone structure and symmetry cannot be fixed by any external products. I have heard of facial exercises making a slight difference but I don't think this is even true.
OMG! if these ppl think they're ugly, then id say i look totally fucked up!! ive got scars all over my face, im extremely dark skinned with weird hair and my friends, even my mom says i look really weird and ugly... my dog loves me though! lol.. but i dont care about my ugly looks, rather i make jokes nd fun out of it to make others laugh.. its funny but yeh its painful too, when i sit alone and think about.. but i aint worried much about it, as i cant change my looks.. so just live life :)
What triggers BDD? Thinking you and your looks are the center of the universe might do. It corresponds well with shows like "Britain's got talent" or "Deutschland sucht den Superstar". Modern times.
I'm a 26 year old male, and I've been dealing with this since I had such bad, deep scars from acne. Everytime I look in the mirror especially in certain lightings I want to kill myself. People tell me my face isn't nearly as bad as I see it, but I always feel it is. I've tried the lasic surgery and that didn't work one bit. I just feel so ugly that I feel completely helpless and don't know what to do
@vin23mac You should go see a psychologist who can help you with your feelings. You may not be classified with BDD because there are certain criteria that must be met for this serious mental disorder, but the psychologist can help you work through these negative thoughts. Please get help so you no longer have to deal with thoughts of suicide and helplessness.
@vin23mac i dont have acne or anything, but bad lighting makes me look so ugly i don't want to be seen. i have dark circles under my eyes, and bad lighting magnifies this and makes me feel horrid, and i think people see this and think im ugly. if i ever do leave the house, in my mind, i KNOW people are thinking im ugly. i just think i know they are, but am i correct? i hate the fact that i do not know if people actually are thinking im ugly.
I'm not as good looking as I would like to be. I am a 19 year old male who is tall and well built, but I know that if I had a more pretty face, then things would be so much different. Despite my good build, I have an unattractive face. Pretty faces are what meets the eye, end of story. They are the ones who have better relationships, better work, better happiness.
I have proof due to having uploaded photos to random websites.
@musicmatterstome105 A pretty face can help initiate relationships, but they get boring very fast. And that pretty face can quickly turn to severe ugliness if that person has a shitty attitude. It takes a lot more than a pretty face to have a quality relationship. In fact, a lack of a pretty face could actually help in long term, meaningful relationships and overall life satisfaction. You become less of a potential risk to your companion.
Depth, intelligence and sensitivity go much further.
@musicmatterstome105 If you're really 19, then that helps to explain why you see things that way. Looks become less relevant as you get older, because "looks" the way you're probably seeing it (youthful appearance) deteriorate over time. Unless you've explicitly been discriminated against because of your appearance to the point where someone said you were too ugly to get a job or whatever, then I think it's mostly in your head.
@musicmatterstome105 Girls are not as important as you think. A caring woman is important though...someone who appreciates you for who you are and accepts all your imperfections. If you can find that, you're set for life.
@musicmatterstome105 It amazes me that young people place so much importance on the opposite sex, as though their life depends on it. How naive. If you want "girls" that badly and don't care to spend the time to find a special woman that you can share your life with, get an escort. Your looks won't matter and neither will your personality, and they will love you "instantly".
Your way of thinking will keep you stuck in a vicious cycle of BDD and depression. Good luck.
@QuantumStates Your way of condescending people with emotional problems will keep everybody else stuck in a vicious cycle of BDD and depression. I wish everybody around you good luck.
@maestro314 That's funny, since I suffered from BDD and depression for most of my life and finally got over it after changing my perspective on various aspects of life. And if pointing out flaws in someone's logic is condescending, then so be it. If you want to insult people with petty comments like yours, you may as well just say you can't think of anything worthwhile to say. Everyone around me is doing just fine, thanks. :)
To everyone - BDD is a very serious - chronic - mental disorder. It is an illness that needs to be treated (professionally preferably) and it has nothing to do with vanity (what a moronic way to describe it, pure and sheer ignorance). I suggest anyone who thinks to have some signs of it to consult a doctor about it. Although many doctors may not be qualified to treat it, they can help by directing you to the right resources. And please, DO NOT AVOID SEEKING HELP. It is the first step!
BDD is a terrible disease, and myself and my therapist have come to the conclusion that I probably do have a slight case of it.
However, what qualifies to make someone have BDD?
I know that people will say there is no such thing as 'being ugly'. But honestly, if someone isn't content with their looks and obsesses over them.... Is it always a distorted view?
@dtfpizza i have to agree. i have bdd, ocd and bipolar. bdd is the greatest suffering in this universe. second is ocd then bipolar. i am really angry why nature has this bullshit property.
@smargelo I suggest to research beautiful outfits for plus sizes... aaand listen to Sacred Spirits and Enigma etc. and meditate, free your mind... i know, i know its difficult... I've suffered from this horrible psychological 'disorder' as well... mediation helped so much, it opened my eyes. Peace and rainy sunny days!
@whysummerwhy Its odd to explain i have an idea of what i want to look liek and I am working towards it but it is becomming unhealthy and people say it shows
i am a very ugly person for real i am 20 and i really look like am 45 and people think that my dad is my brother and my mum is my wife. but the thing is i dont feel very stressed aboutmy self or commit suicide.
BDD i dint not even know it exsists until i was loitering around google what he hell was that .so i have this thing. obsession looking in mirrors making faces.huh my mom tells what the hell are you doing every time when i am in front of a mirror.When there is a mirror i have to get glimpse of it even a glass.BDD sucks there are others also like touching wrists.hand and the hair omg hair hair why are you falling its sucks when you are touching your hair and make more hairfall
@Edelien This is completely shit. They just show the extremely beautiful ones on TV, because you like to watch them. Many BDD sufferers are ugly or average (me) and their concerns are based on objective faults.
@LatestUFOSightings I don't think anyone is "ugly"-- what we define as ugly is cultural. That being said, if you have a "flaw" that is considered so by our culture, it may not be BDD. Saying "they only show the beautiful ones" is kind of the point. "Dysmorphic" means "bad, painful, or disordered" and "morphic" means "having a semetrical shape or form" so if you see a beautiful "semetrical" girl who honestly thinks she's "a monster" then that's the definition of BDD
@raerae1281 You are wrong. Beauty can be calculated. All top actors and models have the same characteristics. People CAN be objectively good looking or objectively ugly.
So if you are objectively ugly, average or even above average, but want to be hot and are not, then you DO NOT HAVE BDD. You are realistic about your looks and have basis for the feelings.
@LatestUFOSightings I'm not wrong, beauty is decided by culture. And I know what you're talking about, that equation that calculates symmetry in the face, but there are things that some cultures think are grotesque and others think are beautiful. I don't believe that someone is "ugly" even if they are deemed so by their culture.
@raerae1281 Read some studies and then come back. My dick gets hard from symmetry, nice skin and pearly white teeth not some "standards" determined by society. Girls pussies get wet by seeing tall guys with pronounced cheekbones and good facial symmetry not some "Hollywood standards". Get a clue. Stop believing the dream.
@LatestUFOSightings It's not a "dream"... attraction depends on more than looks, and if we're talking about looks alone, there are people with different types. I'm a girl and I'm attracted to a certain kind of man and I have friends attracted to very different types. I'm also attracted to a certain kind of woman ;) and she's certainly not a Barbie doll.
@ClockworkGirl9 No, it's probably because you didn't get laid. I never got laid and thus believe it is because of my looks. Because if I would look like a model, I would be getting laid. So it is an objective worry.
@LatestUFOSightings BDD is a gross distortion of mind, not body. The issue is not whether a person is 'objectively ugly or not', the issue here is, "Is it worth suffering over?" The anguish is in the mind first and foremost, not caused by any body. What you describe, your reasoning, is called a logical fallacy, and this one in particular goes round in circles.
Imagined? What if it isn't imagined? Put the golden ratio mask on your face and if it doesn't fit - IT ISN'T IMAGINED. Beauty is objectively defined by golden ratio. If you fit it, gratz, you are objectively ugly. For example, the girl in this documentary isn't a BDD sufferer, because her face is objectively a bit fat, therefore not looking as good as it could. She has realistic concerns. The second woman isn't ugly, but isn't model hot either.
@katieas I'm not ugly, but I'm average and I believe this is a BDD. I objectively know where my attraction stands and am concerned that I don't look better - like Hollywood actors. That is why I will lead a depressing life which will end in suicide. I will also perform several plastic surgeries which might yield some improvement, but reaching Hollywood level and golden proportions is virtually impossible with my bone structure.
BDD is a real disease but sometimes i think its BS cus wut if you are really just that ugly ?i think BDD is just more of obssesing over your ugliness and letting it affect your life.
This is me this is how I feel..When there is no one around even now typing this I feel like I'm judged on my appearance and how the light from my laptop is making me look right now although I know it's ridiculous Does anyone else know what I should do? I genuinely care about myself, but when I look in the mirror it's like another person looking back at me. I haven't been outside in over four months, not even to the mail-box. And I want to do something about this because I know it's not right.
If it weren't TV, fashion, commercials and basically everything that is connected with money and ''beauty'' at some point, people will be more satisfied with themselves.The huge amount of (LIES!) propaganda is now taking its toll.I hate my appearance, but I am able to understand this problem partially. People are surrounded every day with ''beautiful and rich people'' on the billboards and covers of magazines, so they have created some normalcy standards how a normal people should look like.sad
I think I might suffer from this disorder. I think my face looks alright, but it's individual components of it that make me worry. One moment I feel my ears are too far apart, another moment my teeth are yellow, now my upper lip is too long, then my eyes are angled strangely.
But the real problem comes in when I look at the rest of my body. I find myself tall and skinny. One moment I can live with it, other moments I can't even understand how my own mother could love me for my looks.
is your soul ugly?how do you see your soul?when we die,we become bones and dust.we all look the same when we're dead.you might reconsider taking care of your soul.what do you leave behind for your family,for others?guilt?loneliness?it's a shame that today all we talk about it's the looks,and not about soul or mind.stop looking all the time in the mirror and get an activity.read,draw,sing,dance...there are lots of things to do,and so little time...
To all fellow BDDers-only Jesus can change us.He can give us the acceptance that we can't get on our own.Accept Christ as our savior,you will change because He will cast out that dysmorphic spirit that coils itself up inside of you like a snake,hissing and squeezing you so that you can't escape it.But Jesus will grasp that snake by the tail,with his mighty strong hands,uncoil him from around you,and smash his head so that you'll be set free.Seek and you feed,peace,love,freedom
What's the worst is if you altered the thing you're dysmorphic about,then you have self-consciousness AND guilt,and what's realy worse is if it's your face.
I have BDD as well it's a horrible condition I am very suicidal as well.On top of that I have OCD,Anxiety,Major and Bi Polar depression.I hate crowds I hate virtually everything,this condition has ruined my life I'd rather be dead from it what's the point of it all?
@luckyluckycloverfox you dont understand i have BDD and no matter what you do you think you never look good enough and are never satisfied and people without it think its just another thing in the affected persons life but its actually the main thing in the affected persons life.
oh forget that! it happens because no one knows how to treat people! .. you see someone who is actually ugly you call it out! you see someone who is super skinny you call it out! you see someone who is fucking fat you call it out! its our own human race that make people end up thinking they arent good enough and thats that!
It is hard to imagine there are disorders like these. Pretty people who think they are ugly. Ok, if you get picked on, bullied, sweared at, I could understand. But imagining this...Fears are so unfair. Evil finds the worst and meanest things to make our life miserable.
I got diagnosed with BDD today that girl aint got shit wrong with her I'm a 15 year old girl I got undereye hollows that are so discusting I cant go out without sunglasses I can't be seen in the dark where the shadows hit them (no movie theatres) I cant go swimming again cuz I have to take my glasses off and my makeup will wash off and everyone will laugh at how gross and ugly they are.
@madznation that is imagined ugliness. What you see in the mirror and what other people see are too totally different things. I know this because i have BDD and I just think im absolutely hideous but people who dont know i have the disorder call me beautuiful. Ive convinced myself to not trust what I see.
@lythicia999 you dont have to feel ugly to have bdd....i have bdd but i can accept my lips and my skin so i feel terrible some times i wanna kill myself cause of that
@lythicia999 Just because you may feel ugly doesn't actually mean you have a disorder, every single person on this planet has ugly days. (Unless your extremely vain of course) but everyone has times in their life that they're insecure and It doesn't mean you have a disorder.
When are women going to realize that the only kind of man who calls any woman "ugly" is a homosexual man. It's the only kind of man any woman is *truly* "ugly" to.
Straight men aren't given to finding any woman *truly* physically ugly. Even women who would be recognized as unattractive don't come off as truly ugly to a straight man. Ugly implies a physical revulsion that only homosexual men have towards women, no matter how agreedly unattractive the woman might be.
We all have a right to live a happy life. The main purpose in life is no not to look good for other people, but to enjoy life. People who judge other people according to their physical appearance are not worth dealing with anyway, because that is an ugly attitude to have and in turn makes them ugly. Do not worry about what other people think or say because the people who are worth being with will accept you for who you are as a person.
@shopdude10 THANKYOU you are so right but i have BDD and its not just thinking your ugly if your not because that wouldent be a disorder its when its invading and taking up your life i WISH it was just thinking your ugly.
I have a version of this disorder, except I'm not obsessed with checking my appearance. I find myself too revolting to even look at a mirror. I avoid them at all costs. I know that I have this disorder, and the fact that I know I have it doesn't make it any easier.
It is quite horrible to feel a longing for death simply for something like a face. I was created by two beautiful parents, but I turned out quite hideous [laugh] and everyone around me is so beautiful, just looking at them makes me want to die. I feel so ...ugly in this world that is too beautiful.
i hate how they say what we see is "imagined". i've had bdd my whole life and am an identical twin and i think she is ugly too, so clearly i'm no imagining it
No one can cure you but you. If you didn't consider your situation as some kind of "disorder" then you wouldn't feel like shit. Good enough? What the hell? You're born this way, you sound that way, you look that way, you walk & talk that way. The hell with what other people want and think. Ugh.
I have BDD. But it's not uglyiness..not that I think I'm pretty but it's my body. I hate it. I'll just sit in front of the mirror and cry. And cry and cry and cry.
BDD is real. I am a sufferer. For me, personally, it isn't about looking pretty. It's about not being good enough to socialize with other people. It is not about self esteem, it is a fear of not being good enough to please others. Even if I improved my looks, which I did by exercising and living a healthy lifestyle, I can never feel good enough. Once I surpass a "good looking" goal like getting in shape, I set up another one that I can never accomplish, like changing the color of my eyes.
I have just been diagnosed with Body Dysmorphia, I have always been fat and ugly and still am. I developed Anorexia and Bulimia in an attempt to make myself beautiful and still suffer from my Eating Disorders everyday.
I KNOW that I am fat and ugly, I KNOW that. I have to live with it...
I had this terribly and was diagnosed when I was 13, 10 years ago. They just called it body dysmorphia back then. I saw my face morph in the mirror as if I had a stroke and my muscles in my face weren't working anymore. I saw crazy, deluded, scary ugly things in the mirror. No reasoning can fight it if that's what you see in the mirror. I still have OCD/anxiety but not BDD.
@jchar32 I think it's both. I can remember saying to myself I am ugly as early as the age of 5. I was severely bullied by both girls and guys growing up because of my face and weight. Now, I'm so obsessed with being big that I freak out if my weight drops below 180lbs. I'm also having my nose redone within a year or so. With today's society, I think we are more judgemental of others than ever before.
@RB902050 i hope that you keep yourself healthy. this issue is a tough one, but keep your chin up. and try your best not to be influenced by the idealistic and fake world around us!
i have BDD but i don't feel ugly,i know i'm a good looking guy but i just feel ashamed of every part of my body.if i could i would always walk around with a mask.i've been on starvation diets for years and i'm as reclusive and lonely as they come
I have this and it's really hard for me to step outside and think people are staring at me and thinking i'm really ugly or theres something wrong with me. I really hate looking at pictures of myself.
My best friend had this and when I got told I went to her house which she had spent 2 days straight in I went into her house and she started crying and saying i was really pretty and I did something I regret, I slapped her so hard! I told her to get over herself because she had 4 boyfriends in the year (and it was march) and i hadnt had any since february the year before I told her how beautiful she was and everyday I went to her house with a different persona nd we told her how beautiful...
@liacashmere58 Looking back at Michael's transformation, it's really obvious that he had some underlying BDD issues. And what bothers me about the situation is how over the years, we heard so much about his surgeries and the "freak show" that was Michael, but they NEVER talked about his potential BDD. It explains so much about him.
@amyliz143ny I hated when comics and the media used to make fun of his face. BDD is serious and it's very hard to live with. Mj was going through alot. I mean he had BDD, Lupas, vitiligo, and a personality disorder that at times made him think he was a child. I always felt he was misunderstood
I'm crying :c
RAEsaysNOfatchikkz 14 hours ago
That's so sad, and they're not even ugly at all
LizLovesLollipops 23 hours ago
:( I'm so sorry for people who have BDD, it must be hard... I hope they can all be cured...
Namira88 4 days ago
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If there is an actual flaw there - eg Really deformed nose or very ovally egg shaped head and face... What does a therapist/counsellor say? Will they convince the patient into believing its not there or will they be honest with them?
musicmatterstome105 5 days ago
this is what my mom thinks i have but the thing is my issues are true! my hair is thining and i have supper bad scars all over my face and she wont let me deal with it! instead she wants to shove prozac down my throat! so far everyone ive seen in this video are beautiful! this is driveing me nuts!!
cbertram11 6 days ago
@musicmatterstome105...believing great looks will save all my problems, but I know they won't; my mind would then just move onto the next deficiency. Having learned from experience, you need to give less of a shit about other people especially the opposite sex, and focus on loving yourself before you can love anyone else or have meaningful relationships or live a full life. I hope you can read this and take solace and find some peace within yourself.
ouroboros98 1 week ago
@musicmatterstome105 also mate, despite all these comments about how superificial our world is, if you actually look objectively, at the facts, you will see that a lot of successful people in government/corporations/research/business are not all models, even in tv and film. It just wouldn't make sense statistically to exclude the great proportion of the population from these positions for something so trivial as looks. I am like you in being intensely critical of myself and believing...
ouroboros98 1 week ago
@musicmatterstome105 hi mate, as you state, you may in fact be ugly or you may just be normal looking. I know you want to be super hot but that won't stop you having to work hard each day, go through bad times, lose people, feel shitty from time to time. Being good looking is not the key to all great things, as witnesssed by the testaments of the people in the above video. I just want to add some shades of grey into your world perspective : )
ouroboros98 1 week ago
i'm 29 years of age and i definitely suffer from BDD!
i have a complexity called: NOSE!
i'm after a nose job (2009) and I have never been satisfied with how it looks ever since and i'm always confident that it changes and deteriorates, and to tell the truth, it has actually changed (to the extent that i have descried a bump that has never existed before in my nose and it made me highly depressed lately). therefore, it will be safe to say that my worst nightmare has appeared to manifest!
adamdyerseve 1 week ago
awkward moment when you dont have bdd, you're just ugly
martinakloi 2 weeks ago
These women are all beautiful. :S
MsHenryTheGreat 2 weeks ago
No counselling or medication for me. My flaws are real, and YES this obsession has caused countless psychological problems for me such as extreme social anxiety and chronic depression and has ruined my life in every way IMAGINABLE, but it all stems from a physical problem. And fuck this old age doctors theory that surgery wont make people happier. I KNOW surgery will make me happier. Its either that or suicide. They are my only two choices and no body or anything will ever ever change my mind.
letsfloataway 3 weeks ago
@letsfloataway Just wondering out of curioisty.... What are these physical flaws you have, which you feel can be changed through plastic surgery? Mail me if you want!
musicmatterstome105 2 weeks ago
bdd is a illness that people suffer in silence, they are ashamed to have these feelings a disease that makes you punish yourself for having it. bdd controls you it slowly destroys you it convinces you not to get help not to confide in friends and family. its not just as simple as i feel ugly thats why there is alot of people attempt suicide and with some of the comments i have read i can understand why they are reluctant to seek help.
miccky123 3 weeks ago
I have got told before that I look like certain celebrities and sportsmen. Not in a nasty. abusive or insulting way, just in a general comment kind of way. When I looked up these celebrities, I wasn't pleased by what I saw. When I looked further on google search results, I found out that 2 of the sportsmen that I was told I looked like, had actually being voted into the top 20 ugliest sportsmen in europe.
How can one honestly justify me as having B.D.D. and not just being genuinely ugly?
musicmatterstome105 3 weeks ago
I like the part where the people who don't have it don't understand what it's like so they criticize the people who do, oh wait that's in the comments section of the video. VV
GMagana92 3 weeks ago
I'm getting the feeling that they're not fully reporting the full extent of the psychological effects BDD has on these sufferers. Because, okay, she's upset to find these stretch marks "spreading" all over her body, but I can't imagine being so preoccupied with stretch marks that I'd kill myself. I might buy some bio-oil and if it didn't work, get over it. Or if they upset me so much, look into surgery. I think the show should talk about how much they're affected by the "ugliness".
whatamunter 1 month ago
@whatamunter Because your brain is wired a different way doesn't mean that you should criticize others for what they think. They cant help but think that way, thats why its a disorder. Nobody truly understands the disorder besides the sufferers themselves
2357649827536 3 weeks ago
@2357649827536 I wasn't criticising them, I was criticising the way that the show was made. I think the show should allow us to FULLY understand just how much this disorder affects their brain. It kind of makes it look like they're self-centred people who were are very preoccupied with their looks, when it's -from what I understand- a disease that MAKES them preoccupied with their looks.
whatamunter 1 week ago
Stop being so fucking shallow. There are lots of ugly people and they don't go kill themselves. Do you think these people feel uglier than the ugliest person alive? I don't think so.
Ridiculous.
kaptenrobert 1 month ago
@kaptenrobert these people do feel uglier than the ugliest people in the world. i have bdd too. it is terrifying. but it is good thing that i am consious the to the highest level that my symptoms are insane. i know how to handle it and that is why i am still alive. ive been thinking of suicide many times due to bdd. it is super hard to deal with. super hard! but now i know how to handle this shit!
watchWorld100 1 month ago
@kaptenrobert The thing is.. it's a disorder.. and it's not being shallow when you HONESTLY see what you see in the mirror. You can't help it, it just happens. And they probably do feel uglier, because in their minds they are. It sounds selfish and shallowe but put your mind where we are.. It sucks to look in the mirror and see somebody who repulses you.. and it's yourself.
Shehadthedisco 4 weeks ago
@Shehadthedisco No. It's rather an attention-whore disease. Please try to convice me that when they touch their own faces, they feel a quasimodo like face or the face of a burn victim. They might think they're ugly but being ugly is not a reason to want to kill yourself unless you actually deserve it. There are so many really really ugly people in the world for various reason and none of them wants to kill themselves because they learn to live with it. These people disgrace them.
kaptenrobert 3 weeks ago
@kaptenrobert Well I'm not going to lie, in you're perspective yours does have a more valid point than mine. I think it's more psychological than anything. They have 'fooled' themselves or their minds into thinking that they look a particular way so infact they do. I do believe it is an excuse for most of the people who are diagnosed with this disease.. but for some they may honestly believe they see something different in the mirror.
Shehadthedisco 3 weeks ago
I can honestly say that before taking any psychology class, I may have thought something along the lines of: "These girls just need to stop their bitching!" The brain is a funny machine, isn't it?
WarningGrammarNazi 1 month ago
I'm a guy and I cannot stand any hair on my skin, I have extreme anxiety. I have been diagnosed with a personality disorder and they say its part of that. I've tried to slash my wrists and have self harmed because I can't stand my body hair. I've tried shaving waxing and almost everything. I hate myself so much. Is there anyone else on here that has the same fear of body hair?
Carlm2 2 months ago
@Carlm2 not heard of that before. The only other option is lazer treatment that destroys the hair so it doesn't grow back.
22JaneDoe 2 months ago
life is very very very cruel
GriefTourist 2 months ago
@GriefTourist it is. FUCK nature!
watchWorld100 1 month ago
BDD is linked to hypothyroidism in some people. I had extreme anxiety, BDD and hypochondria which has all disappeared. I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid and given thyroxine. Not saying that everyone with BDD has an underactive thyroid, but you should definitely get it checked out.
sophizzy 2 months ago
I don't look in a mirror if I can help it cause I don't like what looks back at me
idontsignin 2 months ago
PsyB32 sent me here
AnimeFan66 2 months ago
fuck, now i know i have this shit i never knew it was actually some kind of diagnosed shit. ive been hiding the fact for so long because its really embarassing!!! especially since im a guy.
jovybudd 2 months ago
@jovybudd so you also feel that pressure on your heart too?? like "i wish i was someone else"??
BTW im deleting this comment in an hour or so
elrockerchido 2 months ago
@jovybudd It's not your fault my friend BDD is a horrible condition I've suffered for years myself.I'm a guy by the way and have also felt a sense of shame having it,it's an illness that many sufferers feel is difficult to talk about.I've had three nose jobs and I still hate my nose,I struggle like hell looking in the mirror and shaving,struggle like hell where there are crowds and many young people.It's pure hell and see how the condition drives many sufferers to suicide.
strke69 2 months ago
I have a small case of BDD, Ihate it!
Thewayweroll108 2 months ago
...and moves up a lot more, making my eyes look really assymetrical and just weird. I hate it to be honest and I truly believe that it's not just in my head! Even looking at pictures from when I was younger, I see it. I only noticed it now as a teenager though since I've been growing a lot more. I especially notice my right eye in photos. In the mirror I'm usually 100% fine with myself. The doctor suggested I get botox to relax 1 or some muscles around my eye. I dont know what to do though!
damierJordan 3 months ago
Help? I dont know if i have this or not. I'm a 17 y/o guy and the 1 thing that bothers me is my right eye. I know there is something wrong and i can feel it. I saw a doctor and he noticed that i can lift my right eyebrow a lot lot higher than my left eyebrow (my left eye and eyebrow feel normal. I can only feel something wrong in my right one) Especially when I smile too, the skin under my right eye is a lot more loose and moves up.... (read comment above this for 2nd part)
damierJordan 3 months ago
It also annoys me when beautiful people with acne complain about body dysmorphic disorder.
ACNE IS FIXABLE!!!
It's people like me - who have a poor bone structure and an asymmetrical face. That cannot be fixed, bar major major surgery which is both really expensive and also very very risky. Mine is a real problem, and my only option is taking the risk of plastic surgery by saving loads of money up for it.
musicmatterstome105 3 months ago
@musicmatterstome105
you're right!
TheJanaKristina 3 months ago
@TheJanaKristina It's a good point, as bone structure and symmetry cannot be fixed by any external products. I have heard of facial exercises making a slight difference but I don't think this is even true.
musicmatterstome105 3 months ago
OMG! if these ppl think they're ugly, then id say i look totally fucked up!! ive got scars all over my face, im extremely dark skinned with weird hair and my friends, even my mom says i look really weird and ugly... my dog loves me though! lol.. but i dont care about my ugly looks, rather i make jokes nd fun out of it to make others laugh.. its funny but yeh its painful too, when i sit alone and think about.. but i aint worried much about it, as i cant change my looks.. so just live life :)
darkdivinum 3 months ago
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What triggers BDD? Thinking you and your looks are the center of the universe might do. It corresponds well with shows like "Britain's got talent" or "Deutschland sucht den Superstar". Modern times.
68secretgarden 3 months ago
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68secretgarden 3 months ago
I'm a 26 year old male, and I've been dealing with this since I had such bad, deep scars from acne. Everytime I look in the mirror especially in certain lightings I want to kill myself. People tell me my face isn't nearly as bad as I see it, but I always feel it is. I've tried the lasic surgery and that didn't work one bit. I just feel so ugly that I feel completely helpless and don't know what to do
vin23mac 3 months ago
@vin23mac You should go see a psychologist who can help you with your feelings. You may not be classified with BDD because there are certain criteria that must be met for this serious mental disorder, but the psychologist can help you work through these negative thoughts. Please get help so you no longer have to deal with thoughts of suicide and helplessness.
alysunrene 3 months ago
@vin23mac i dont have acne or anything, but bad lighting makes me look so ugly i don't want to be seen. i have dark circles under my eyes, and bad lighting magnifies this and makes me feel horrid, and i think people see this and think im ugly. if i ever do leave the house, in my mind, i KNOW people are thinking im ugly. i just think i know they are, but am i correct? i hate the fact that i do not know if people actually are thinking im ugly.
acejacko23 3 months ago
I don't think I have B.D.D.
I think I have H.R. - Harsh Reality.
I'm not as good looking as I would like to be. I am a 19 year old male who is tall and well built, but I know that if I had a more pretty face, then things would be so much different. Despite my good build, I have an unattractive face. Pretty faces are what meets the eye, end of story. They are the ones who have better relationships, better work, better happiness.
I have proof due to having uploaded photos to random websites.
musicmatterstome105 3 months ago
@musicmatterstome105 A pretty face can help initiate relationships, but they get boring very fast. And that pretty face can quickly turn to severe ugliness if that person has a shitty attitude. It takes a lot more than a pretty face to have a quality relationship. In fact, a lack of a pretty face could actually help in long term, meaningful relationships and overall life satisfaction. You become less of a potential risk to your companion.
Depth, intelligence and sensitivity go much further.
QuantumStates 3 months ago
@QuantumStates I would love to believe you but from my own life experiences, 80 % of it has to do with looks.
musicmatterstome105 3 months ago
@musicmatterstome105 If you're really 19, then that helps to explain why you see things that way. Looks become less relevant as you get older, because "looks" the way you're probably seeing it (youthful appearance) deteriorate over time. Unless you've explicitly been discriminated against because of your appearance to the point where someone said you were too ugly to get a job or whatever, then I think it's mostly in your head.
QuantumStates 3 months ago
@QuantumStates Yeah I'm 19. Ok I'll admit, I said that comment in a sort of mini rage. I know that personality matters far more.
My problem is that I can't accept being average looking. I want to be hot, the type of guy who can attract girls instantly.
musicmatterstome105 3 months ago
@musicmatterstome105 Girls are not as important as you think. A caring woman is important though...someone who appreciates you for who you are and accepts all your imperfections. If you can find that, you're set for life.
QuantumStates 3 months ago
@QuantumStates I'm sorry but that's not the way the world works.
musicmatterstome105 3 months ago
@musicmatterstome105 It amazes me that young people place so much importance on the opposite sex, as though their life depends on it. How naive. If you want "girls" that badly and don't care to spend the time to find a special woman that you can share your life with, get an escort. Your looks won't matter and neither will your personality, and they will love you "instantly".
Your way of thinking will keep you stuck in a vicious cycle of BDD and depression. Good luck.
QuantumStates 3 months ago
@QuantumStates Your way of condescending people with emotional problems will keep everybody else stuck in a vicious cycle of BDD and depression. I wish everybody around you good luck.
maestro314 3 months ago
@maestro314 Here, let me do something constructive instead of flaming. Google "emotional validation". Cheers!
maestro314 3 months ago
@maestro314 That's funny, since I suffered from BDD and depression for most of my life and finally got over it after changing my perspective on various aspects of life. And if pointing out flaws in someone's logic is condescending, then so be it. If you want to insult people with petty comments like yours, you may as well just say you can't think of anything worthwhile to say. Everyone around me is doing just fine, thanks. :)
QuantumStates 3 months ago
i have this..
NikkiNightmareRocks 3 months ago
she's not ugly....she's mingin
MrRagingbovine 3 months ago
To everyone - BDD is a very serious - chronic - mental disorder. It is an illness that needs to be treated (professionally preferably) and it has nothing to do with vanity (what a moronic way to describe it, pure and sheer ignorance). I suggest anyone who thinks to have some signs of it to consult a doctor about it. Although many doctors may not be qualified to treat it, they can help by directing you to the right resources. And please, DO NOT AVOID SEEKING HELP. It is the first step!
Cascarino33 3 months ago
Wow. Is it just me or are they all pretty attractive people? Hmm...interesting.
cooolness3 3 months ago
poor people! god bless them all :(
Agnesstation 4 months ago 11
@Agnesstation fuck your god for fucking things like this. bdd-ocd is hell!
watchWorld100 1 month ago
@watchWorld100
sorry if i offensed you. I didn't mean to be mean, and maybe it's the thought that counts? :)
sorry anyways!
Agnesstation 1 month ago
what do you mean no one knows how it is caused..fucking hell.
bluejaywaay 4 months ago
BDD is a terrible disease, and myself and my therapist have come to the conclusion that I probably do have a slight case of it.
However, what qualifies to make someone have BDD?
I know that people will say there is no such thing as 'being ugly'. But honestly, if someone isn't content with their looks and obsesses over them.... Is it always a distorted view?
musicmatterstome105 4 months ago 9
I used to be BDD, then that was replaced with Bipolar. Honestly, I prefer Bipolar.
dtfpizza 1 week ago
@dtfpizza i have to agree. i have bdd, ocd and bipolar. bdd is the greatest suffering in this universe. second is ocd then bipolar. i am really angry why nature has this bullshit property.
watchWorld100 5 days ago in playlist Liked videos
low self esteem, self consciousness and social phobia triggered my BDD. it's crazy how true the saying is; 'you are your worst enemy'.
pojo205 4 months ago
@smargelo you are not alone in this...so yes i pray for you (and me) :-)
innerworldz 4 months ago
@smargelo I suggest to research beautiful outfits for plus sizes... aaand listen to Sacred Spirits and Enigma etc. and meditate, free your mind... i know, i know its difficult... I've suffered from this horrible psychological 'disorder' as well... mediation helped so much, it opened my eyes. Peace and rainy sunny days!
SantaValium 4 months ago
@whysummerwhy Its odd to explain i have an idea of what i want to look liek and I am working towards it but it is becomming unhealthy and people say it shows
Kobalos 4 months ago
It feels so good to know that I am not alone with this...
jaylay734 4 months ago 2
@jaylay734 what is it like? what happens? what do u wished u looked like?
whysummerwhy 4 months ago
yeah I never feel attractive enough. For whatever reason I cannot get over my physical appearance.
firehead2591 4 months ago 2
@firehead2591 how long? like what do you mean? or what do u see?
whysummerwhy 4 months ago
This speaks to me hardly a day goes by when i dont feel like vomiting from what I see in the mirror
Kobalos 4 months ago
@Kobalos really, what do you mean like? do u have the idea of what u want to look like but dont see it or...?
whysummerwhy 4 months ago
i am a very ugly person for real i am 20 and i really look like am 45 and people think that my dad is my brother and my mum is my wife. but the thing is i dont feel very stressed aboutmy self or commit suicide.
benibulma 4 months ago
this shit sucks to have :[
BraveToasterFriend 5 months ago
looking at mirror at time to time to check your face is real .many people do this thing . like keira
RojanMiz 5 months ago
BDD i dint not even know it exsists until i was loitering around google what he hell was that .so i have this thing. obsession looking in mirrors making faces.huh my mom tells what the hell are you doing every time when i am in front of a mirror.When there is a mirror i have to get glimpse of it even a glass.BDD sucks there are others also like touching wrists.hand and the hair omg hair hair why are you falling its sucks when you are touching your hair and make more hairfall
RojanMiz 5 months ago
I have this to the worse extent...I'm sorry but if you don't suffer from it then you just wont understand..
Lovemyfans5 5 months ago
@Lovemyfans5 wait, you do? what do you mean exactly? whats it like?
whysummerwhy 4 months ago
@Edelien This is completely shit. They just show the extremely beautiful ones on TV, because you like to watch them. Many BDD sufferers are ugly or average (me) and their concerns are based on objective faults.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@LatestUFOSightings I don't think anyone is "ugly"-- what we define as ugly is cultural. That being said, if you have a "flaw" that is considered so by our culture, it may not be BDD. Saying "they only show the beautiful ones" is kind of the point. "Dysmorphic" means "bad, painful, or disordered" and "morphic" means "having a semetrical shape or form" so if you see a beautiful "semetrical" girl who honestly thinks she's "a monster" then that's the definition of BDD
raerae1281 5 months ago
@raerae1281 You are wrong. Beauty can be calculated. All top actors and models have the same characteristics. People CAN be objectively good looking or objectively ugly.
So if you are objectively ugly, average or even above average, but want to be hot and are not, then you DO NOT HAVE BDD. You are realistic about your looks and have basis for the feelings.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@LatestUFOSightings I'm not wrong, beauty is decided by culture. And I know what you're talking about, that equation that calculates symmetry in the face, but there are things that some cultures think are grotesque and others think are beautiful. I don't believe that someone is "ugly" even if they are deemed so by their culture.
raerae1281 5 months ago
@raerae1281 Read some studies and then come back. My dick gets hard from symmetry, nice skin and pearly white teeth not some "standards" determined by society. Girls pussies get wet by seeing tall guys with pronounced cheekbones and good facial symmetry not some "Hollywood standards". Get a clue. Stop believing the dream.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@LatestUFOSightings It's not a "dream"... attraction depends on more than looks, and if we're talking about looks alone, there are people with different types. I'm a girl and I'm attracted to a certain kind of man and I have friends attracted to very different types. I'm also attracted to a certain kind of woman ;) and she's certainly not a Barbie doll.
raerae1281 5 months ago
@LatestUFOSightings not me, i'm going to marry a fat hobo who is intelligent and listens to jeff buckley and he's going to be famous.
whysummerwhy 4 months ago
@amyeditor Yeah...what if everyone can notice? It's still BDD? Don't think so.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@cellulitelove That is the point. Many times it isn't imagined. You just have to do plastic surgery and shit.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@hannnahsheriff Become more attractive. Seriously. There are ways.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@ClockworkGirl9 No, it's probably because you didn't get laid. I never got laid and thus believe it is because of my looks. Because if I would look like a model, I would be getting laid. So it is an objective worry.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
@LatestUFOSightings BDD is a gross distortion of mind, not body. The issue is not whether a person is 'objectively ugly or not', the issue here is, "Is it worth suffering over?" The anguish is in the mind first and foremost, not caused by any body. What you describe, your reasoning, is called a logical fallacy, and this one in particular goes round in circles.
ClockworkGirl9 5 months ago
Imagined? What if it isn't imagined? Put the golden ratio mask on your face and if it doesn't fit - IT ISN'T IMAGINED. Beauty is objectively defined by golden ratio. If you fit it, gratz, you are objectively ugly. For example, the girl in this documentary isn't a BDD sufferer, because her face is objectively a bit fat, therefore not looking as good as it could. She has realistic concerns. The second woman isn't ugly, but isn't model hot either.
BDD is only when hot people have it.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
Can "ugly" people have BDD? Where's the line between delusion and just knowing you're a dog?
katieas 5 months ago
@katieas I'm not ugly, but I'm average and I believe this is a BDD. I objectively know where my attraction stands and am concerned that I don't look better - like Hollywood actors. That is why I will lead a depressing life which will end in suicide. I will also perform several plastic surgeries which might yield some improvement, but reaching Hollywood level and golden proportions is virtually impossible with my bone structure.
LatestUFOSightings 5 months ago
Not just teenagers, I've suffered into my 40's with it.
waynejawspp 5 months ago
@BijouxMon i never thought anyone else felt like that too wow i guess BDD is really a thing it sux having it tho
BrittneyNicoleflicks 5 months ago
BDD is a real disease but sometimes i think its BS cus wut if you are really just that ugly ?i think BDD is just more of obssesing over your ugliness and letting it affect your life.
BrittneyNicoleflicks 5 months ago
This is me this is how I feel..When there is no one around even now typing this I feel like I'm judged on my appearance and how the light from my laptop is making me look right now although I know it's ridiculous Does anyone else know what I should do? I genuinely care about myself, but when I look in the mirror it's like another person looking back at me. I haven't been outside in over four months, not even to the mail-box. And I want to do something about this because I know it's not right.
SaffyRocks 6 months ago
The morale of the story is...Be thankful to what you are.
mskokoroli 6 months ago
what do they call it when you think everyone around you is really ugly?
mazdaishpahan 6 months ago
espicaly the 3rd girl. shya. dsl.
MagicCryo 6 months ago
bang em all xD
MagicCryo 6 months ago
If it weren't TV, fashion, commercials and basically everything that is connected with money and ''beauty'' at some point, people will be more satisfied with themselves.The huge amount of (LIES!) propaganda is now taking its toll.I hate my appearance, but I am able to understand this problem partially. People are surrounded every day with ''beautiful and rich people'' on the billboards and covers of magazines, so they have created some normalcy standards how a normal people should look like.sad
Lackesse 6 months ago
I think I might suffer from this disorder. I think my face looks alright, but it's individual components of it that make me worry. One moment I feel my ears are too far apart, another moment my teeth are yellow, now my upper lip is too long, then my eyes are angled strangely.
But the real problem comes in when I look at the rest of my body. I find myself tall and skinny. One moment I can live with it, other moments I can't even understand how my own mother could love me for my looks.
DrsJacksonn 6 months ago
is your soul ugly?how do you see your soul?when we die,we become bones and dust.we all look the same when we're dead.you might reconsider taking care of your soul.what do you leave behind for your family,for others?guilt?loneliness?it's a shame that today all we talk about it's the looks,and not about soul or mind.stop looking all the time in the mirror and get an activity.read,draw,sing,dance...there are lots of things to do,and so little time...
BishoujoHeart 6 months ago
To all fellow BDDers-only Jesus can change us.He can give us the acceptance that we can't get on our own.Accept Christ as our savior,you will change because He will cast out that dysmorphic spirit that coils itself up inside of you like a snake,hissing and squeezing you so that you can't escape it.But Jesus will grasp that snake by the tail,with his mighty strong hands,uncoil him from around you,and smash his head so that you'll be set free.Seek and you feed,peace,love,freedom
glassstatue 7 months ago
@glassstatue Spread your braindead ideas elsewhere.
Tangentbordsblues 5 months ago
What's the worst is if you altered the thing you're dysmorphic about,then you have self-consciousness AND guilt,and what's realy worse is if it's your face.
glassstatue 7 months ago
LOL, that guy at 3:00 sounds like Alan Rickman!
LadyVanDaele 7 months ago
i read a quote once and it said "remember that what you see as flaws, other people see it as beautiful" . i don't know, but that's true. :)
dearnataly 7 months ago
I walk around.....I hide my face when I see prettier girls then me...I carry mirrors with me everywhere I go...Im so ashamed of myself.
savsayshi 7 months ago
I have BDD as well it's a horrible condition I am very suicidal as well.On top of that I have OCD,Anxiety,Major and Bi Polar depression.I hate crowds I hate virtually everything,this condition has ruined my life I'd rather be dead from it what's the point of it all?
rebel779 7 months ago 3
kei your pretty just a bit chubby and you have flipping perfect skin your not ugly i wish you feel better
cephiro14 7 months ago
I spend lots of time on my face. I never feel satisfied with myself. BDD is not a fun thing. At all.
TheBieberlicous 7 months ago 25
doesent everyone have BDD to an extent??
ChristinaWolfle 7 months ago
the girl at 3:30 is pretty!
juliedamato 7 months ago
@luckyluckycloverfox you dont understand i have BDD and no matter what you do you think you never look good enough and are never satisfied and people without it think its just another thing in the affected persons life but its actually the main thing in the affected persons life.
juliedamato 8 months ago
Ill be in a mental hospital soon because of my uncurable severe depression.
Ive been told that maybe I have BDD, but I dont think. Im just ugly, short and fat and I have to accept it.
Im just 16 and life is already hell.
nickierainbow 8 months ago
oh forget that! it happens because no one knows how to treat people! .. you see someone who is actually ugly you call it out! you see someone who is super skinny you call it out! you see someone who is fucking fat you call it out! its our own human race that make people end up thinking they arent good enough and thats that!
gerardlover92 8 months ago
Neither woman is even close to being ugly. A person can feel ugly on the
inside too.
ManhattanMusician 8 months ago
It is hard to imagine there are disorders like these. Pretty people who think they are ugly. Ok, if you get picked on, bullied, sweared at, I could understand. But imagining this...Fears are so unfair. Evil finds the worst and meanest things to make our life miserable.
royalsteven 8 months ago
I got diagnosed with BDD today that girl aint got shit wrong with her I'm a 15 year old girl I got undereye hollows that are so discusting I cant go out without sunglasses I can't be seen in the dark where the shadows hit them (no movie theatres) I cant go swimming again cuz I have to take my glasses off and my makeup will wash off and everyone will laugh at how gross and ugly they are.
madznation 8 months ago
@madznation that is imagined ugliness. What you see in the mirror and what other people see are too totally different things. I know this because i have BDD and I just think im absolutely hideous but people who dont know i have the disorder call me beautuiful. Ive convinced myself to not trust what I see.
juliedamato 8 months ago
attempted suicide 5 times lol.. think they sent her back for being 2 ugly
moulinyan 8 months ago 2
if you don't feel ugly you don't have BDD...
lythicia999 8 months ago
@lythicia999 you dont have to feel ugly to have bdd....i have bdd but i can accept my lips and my skin so i feel terrible some times i wanna kill myself cause of that
anastasia21ism 8 months ago
@lythicia999 Just because you may feel ugly doesn't actually mean you have a disorder, every single person on this planet has ugly days. (Unless your extremely vain of course) but everyone has times in their life that they're insecure and It doesn't mean you have a disorder.
bbyckhx 4 months ago
I'd be glad to have that disease, but I'm really ugly as hell. -.-" I hate reality.
IvoryBloom 8 months ago
i feel so fat......that i curl up and dnt eat sum times.....wish i cud tell sum1
hannahlappin 8 months ago
This illness doesn't seem so bad when they show themselves to millions of viewers.
All they need is to get a grip and stop acting like douchebags.
CaptainKacknup 9 months ago
i have BDD too :(
LacostinaAc 9 months ago
@LacostinaAc same here
juliedamato 7 months ago
When are women going to realize that the only kind of man who calls any woman "ugly" is a homosexual man. It's the only kind of man any woman is *truly* "ugly" to.
Straight men aren't given to finding any woman *truly* physically ugly. Even women who would be recognized as unattractive don't come off as truly ugly to a straight man. Ugly implies a physical revulsion that only homosexual men have towards women, no matter how agreedly unattractive the woman might be.
zEropoint68 9 months ago
what ugly bastards
tomissmart1991 9 months ago
We all have a right to live a happy life. The main purpose in life is no not to look good for other people, but to enjoy life. People who judge other people according to their physical appearance are not worth dealing with anyway, because that is an ugly attitude to have and in turn makes them ugly. Do not worry about what other people think or say because the people who are worth being with will accept you for who you are as a person.
shopdude10 9 months ago 4
@shopdude10 xd
ASAFYY 9 months ago
@shopdude10 THANKYOU you are so right but i have BDD and its not just thinking your ugly if your not because that wouldent be a disorder its when its invading and taking up your life i WISH it was just thinking your ugly.
juliedamato 8 months ago
I have a version of this disorder, except I'm not obsessed with checking my appearance. I find myself too revolting to even look at a mirror. I avoid them at all costs. I know that I have this disorder, and the fact that I know I have it doesn't make it any easier.
hazard04 9 months ago
uuuu
magicdodog 9 months ago
Body dysmorphic disorder plz go away :(
anywho i made a list of things that will make me pretty -___-
Aspenfash899 9 months ago
It is quite horrible to feel a longing for death simply for something like a face. I was created by two beautiful parents, but I turned out quite hideous [laugh] and everyone around me is so beautiful, just looking at them makes me want to die. I feel so ...ugly in this world that is too beautiful.
HeyLookTheSunSmiled 9 months ago 2
were doing this in school-it must suck to feel that ur so ugly you literly wanna die
helenna100 9 months ago
i hate how they say what we see is "imagined". i've had bdd my whole life and am an identical twin and i think she is ugly too, so clearly i'm no imagining it
rebecccarose 9 months ago 3
No one can cure you but you. If you didn't consider your situation as some kind of "disorder" then you wouldn't feel like shit. Good enough? What the hell? You're born this way, you sound that way, you look that way, you walk & talk that way. The hell with what other people want and think. Ugh.
lehcaRiku 9 months ago
The problem is not that they feel they look ugly.
The problem is that they think looking ugly is a problem.
sthenolagniac 10 months ago
I have BDD. But it's not uglyiness..not that I think I'm pretty but it's my body. I hate it. I'll just sit in front of the mirror and cry. And cry and cry and cry.
BlairCeola 10 months ago
BDD is real. I am a sufferer. For me, personally, it isn't about looking pretty. It's about not being good enough to socialize with other people. It is not about self esteem, it is a fear of not being good enough to please others. Even if I improved my looks, which I did by exercising and living a healthy lifestyle, I can never feel good enough. Once I surpass a "good looking" goal like getting in shape, I set up another one that I can never accomplish, like changing the color of my eyes.
aznlalaland 10 months ago 5
it's a shame they have this illness,they aren't even ugly
and Nadine is pretty!
sMcstan 10 months ago
it's a shame they have this illness,they aren't even ugly.
sMcstan 10 months ago
I have just been diagnosed with Body Dysmorphia, I have always been fat and ugly and still am. I developed Anorexia and Bulimia in an attempt to make myself beautiful and still suffer from my Eating Disorders everyday.
I KNOW that I am fat and ugly, I KNOW that. I have to live with it...
GreenOrangeBlack 10 months ago
I had this terribly and was diagnosed when I was 13, 10 years ago. They just called it body dysmorphia back then. I saw my face morph in the mirror as if I had a stroke and my muscles in my face weren't working anymore. I saw crazy, deluded, scary ugly things in the mirror. No reasoning can fight it if that's what you see in the mirror. I still have OCD/anxiety but not BDD.
ByeByeBelly 10 months ago
anyone else have a similar issue?
jchar32 10 months ago
what do you guys think causes this? is it something going wrong with the persons brain? or is it because of society? what do you guys think?
jchar32 10 months ago
@jchar32 I think it's both. I can remember saying to myself I am ugly as early as the age of 5. I was severely bullied by both girls and guys growing up because of my face and weight. Now, I'm so obsessed with being big that I freak out if my weight drops below 180lbs. I'm also having my nose redone within a year or so. With today's society, I think we are more judgemental of others than ever before.
RB902050 10 months ago
@RB902050 i hope that you keep yourself healthy. this issue is a tough one, but keep your chin up. and try your best not to be influenced by the idealistic and fake world around us!
jchar32 10 months ago
an alien amongst humans 1:22 -
WeThePeopleInc 11 months ago
i have BDD but i don't feel ugly,i know i'm a good looking guy but i just feel ashamed of every part of my body.if i could i would always walk around with a mask.i've been on starvation diets for years and i'm as reclusive and lonely as they come
geiuy 11 months ago 41
@geiuy Thanks for helping me feel less alone.
XOalakanaXO 8 months ago
@geiuy Same here! I have BDD too thats why i watched this but mine isnt as bad as these girls and im only 11
juliedamato 8 months ago
I have this and it's really hard for me to step outside and think people are staring at me and thinking i'm really ugly or theres something wrong with me. I really hate looking at pictures of myself.
devilmaycry123ify 11 months ago
.... she was. I did this every day and she acctualy got over it! Now shes a cocky bitch ;)
WaterBottle1998 11 months ago
My best friend had this and when I got told I went to her house which she had spent 2 days straight in I went into her house and she started crying and saying i was really pretty and I did something I regret, I slapped her so hard! I told her to get over herself because she had 4 boyfriends in the year (and it was march) and i hadnt had any since february the year before I told her how beautiful she was and everyday I went to her house with a different persona nd we told her how beautiful...
WaterBottle1998 11 months ago
I'm sure I have this too
Luciannaminx 11 months ago
This makes me think that Michael Jackson had this disorder.
amyliz143ny 11 months ago 4
@amyliz143ny Mj did have it.
liacashmere58 11 months ago
@liacashmere58 Looking back at Michael's transformation, it's really obvious that he had some underlying BDD issues. And what bothers me about the situation is how over the years, we heard so much about his surgeries and the "freak show" that was Michael, but they NEVER talked about his potential BDD. It explains so much about him.
amyliz143ny 11 months ago
@amyliz143ny I hated when comics and the media used to make fun of his face. BDD is serious and it's very hard to live with. Mj was going through alot. I mean he had BDD, Lupas, vitiligo, and a personality disorder that at times made him think he was a child. I always felt he was misunderstood
liacashmere58 11 months ago 3