Looks That Kill - BDD Film -Trailer

First-ever documentary for BBC1 about young woman sufferer of little known mental condition Body Dysmorphic Disorder, involving obsessive feelings of physical ugliness, acute self-mutilation, suicidalism and her Cognitive Therapy (CBT). Director John Furse, former BDD sufferer.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Body
• Dysmorphic
• Disorder
• obsessive
• ugliness
• self
• harm
• self-mutilation
• suicide
• John
• Furse

[declanstark]

I have BDD (diagnosed by a clinical psychologist), and I have to disagree with you. People with BDD often do have short moments where they think maybe they look normal or acceptable. It's just that the vast majority of the time, we believe we are hideous or deformed or freakish (in my case I believe I am ugly and weird looking). However, occasionally I look in the mirror and get a brief glimpse where I maybe look slightly normal or okay.

[abumxxx2]

i have bdd too, but im quite the opposite. i avoid looking at my self fully, i constantly look at my self but only up to my nose and just like her i obsess over it. I can't look at my whole face or fully in a full mirror, it will ruin my day because i will just cry and cry and cry. bdd is ruining my life, i have no friends or relationships, this obsession with the way i look has impaired my ability to interact with people, i just assume they are appalled by me.

[lythicia999]

i have BDD, my it's my skin, my teeth, my hair.

[missy6492]

@declanstark is it true that most bdd ppl are thin? id really like to know because in my case, i havent been diagnosed but i too obsess all the time over my weight and how i look. everyone SAYS im thin but im 5 ft 9, and am 12 stone 12lbs. i should be 11 according to doctors. i have an appointment with the doc on friday but tbh is it worth it? am i just embarassing myself when all he will tell me that AVERAGELY i am overweight? Maybe im setting myself up to be told im fat....:/

[zEropoint68]

The worst part of the awareness campaigns is that people just assume that if you look a little different, you must have a full blown mental disease because that's what the news says, right?

Except not right. I'm a woman and my upper body puts most men's to shame. I see my father's looks and body when I look in the mirror and I couldn't imagine not being happy with it.

But other people see a big woman with big muscles and assume I hate myself... and they're actually *upset* that I don't.

[KauneusonKaikkialla]

This is trully awful! She is a gorgeous young woman with such a bright future ahead of her. I cannot believe that girls suffer so much with warped perceptions of their own beautiful bodies! Trust me, NO ONE looks like those models on magazines. Even the models themselves don't look like that. Those images that they market to us are worth MILLIONS of dollars worth of airbrush, makeup, and a good marketing team. Those aren't human beings anymore.

[libyabird90]

@abumxxx2 OMG i feel exactly the same!! i feel i look like a man too, and i think i look much older than 20, which isn't nice but no one understands me, it's not fair!! i wish i could just live life normally like everyone else before it's too late, but at the moment it's physically impossible and i have no idea what to do!!! how about you, you wrote this a year ago, has anything changed?

[idoitsogood]

@Hitman018 yea it kinda is i hav it myself it affects 2% of the worlds population but there r so many different things that r possible to go wrong in life cancer anorexia etc ..............................­............................ millions of things that can destroy a life in a second but this stops u from living normally u might aswell not be alive

[dianabettinson]

@MissesPapillon

As her mother I can tell you that she is still very careful about her looks and weight but is able to live a normal life. She is Married to the boyfriend in the film and they have a beautiful daughter. She is not over it but has learned to live with her condition and is doing well.

[karijessig]

I think I have BDD too, i look at the mirror and i Don't like anything about my self!! I go out and see other pretty girls and I say,,, wow why can't I look like her? and I feel ugly... many people look at me and I feel that they're looking at my ugly face or my ugly body! some of my friends told me I'm pretty but I just don't believe them! It's a horrible feeling!!!!

[Hitman018]

Its not a rare disorder fucking morons

[gayisrael]

@elmoluvspony when i go to clubs i walk to see my reflection on the mirror coz i feel ugly.

then i see in the mirror i look pretty after 10 minuts i feel ugly again.