Mirror, Mirror: Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Part 2

In a world where looks and image are everything, imagine feeling too ugly to even step out the front door, so ugly that you wanted to kill yourself.

It might sound ridiculous, but for victims of a little known mental illness, it's a daily reality. No-one knows what causes Body Dysmorphic Disorder but it leaves once healthy teenagers crippled by their imagined ugliness.

(2001)
Reporter: Tara Brown, Producer: Kathryn Bonella

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• bdd
• body
• dysmorphic
• disorder
• mirror
• imagined
• ugliness

[Luciannaminx]

this makes me wanna cry - because I have it too

[SubAtomicWhale]

i swear a lot of the sufferers are actually prettier than average...

[LuvSasukeOrElse13]

what the hell.. if i was HALF as pretty as either of those girls I'd be happy

[musicmatterstome105]

@Joylibelle Thank you, wish you the best in your hopes and aspirations as well!

[Joylibelle]

@musicmatterstome105 Well, whatever your decision, I'm sure it will be a wise one. August 15th. is my birthday, I will be thinking of you. Goodluck, I wish you lots and lots of happiness! Joylibelle

[musicmatterstome105]

@Joylibelle Yep... but I'm willing to give it 6 more months of just being myself completely, to see if its actually an emotional problem and not a physical problem August the 15th is the date I'm setting myself. If I haven't achieved happiness by that date, then I will start researching into how to go about getting plastic surgery.

[Joylibelle]

@musicmatterstome105 , Forget what people think. Forget whatever they call it, whether it's BDD, BFF or WHAM or what!! So, you're a perfectionist, so what. It's YOUR life and it's YOUR perfectionism. Look, it's plain simple: If you are not happy with whatever it is that bothers you physically and you are convinced that a plastic surgery will make you feel better about your appearance, and your doctor thinks it's safe, then: DO IT...Don't let other people gaslight you!!

[musicmatterstome105]

@Joylibelle Well, the way I see it is this. I'm not sure if its myself searching for perfectionism and whether I just have to be myself. I'm willing to give it 6 more months though.

Like, people say that once you don't have a 'defect', everythings ok, it's all in your head etc etc etc. The reality is, you don't necessarily need to have a defect to be ugly or unattractive.

I don't know like... It could be a warped perception. I'm giving it 6 more months though before getting plastic surgery.

[Chucky248259]

I have this.. I really want to go tell someone. Ive ruined my future because of this. I stopped college because I felt too ugly for anyone to see me. Everyone thinks I'm attention seeking, because before I got this I would take pictures of myself about 100 a month but a bit after that , camera made me realize I looked awful. Then I looked in the mirror and I saw a monster after a few minutes. :( I just want my confidence back. :'( I want to go talk to someone so bad. I only have 1 friend left.

[butcheromance]

@SubAtomicWhale I agree! People allways called me pretty. Extremly pretty. And I belive them, that they see it that way! Sometimes even I can see it for a while <3

But in phases - like now - it becomes unbareble...I just can't accept myself. I'm never good enough! I am okay most of the time...but never really pleased. Never. I wish there was a way to let go all that worries...

[Joylibelle]

@musicmatterstome105, I completely agree with you!! Stressing on this so called "imaginary" wrong view, will make the person feel even more lonely, and misunderstood. Plastic surgery can be a solution!!

[leniboda]

i've done that with the peroxide too