Overcoming BDD

A personal story. A way forward.

My story Journal Resources Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Powered by Genesis

Goodbye 2013

By Stephen

Maybe it is a bit cliché to be writing a post on the last day of the year, but I am writing anyway. Writing has become my form of therapy, the place I can go to escape into my thoughts. Maybe part of the suffering that comes along with BDD is the product of overthinking. […]

Filed Under: Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder Tagged With: BDD, Hello New Year, LONG, SO

My List of Lies

By Stephen

I am worth nothing if my image is flawed People will not like me if my image is flawed People only care about my appearance People will stare at me and feel disgust when they spend time with me I look scary because of my scar I look angry or “evil” because of my scar […]

Filed Under: Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder Tagged With: BDD, beauty, WASTE

Body Dysmorphic Disorder – And The Holidays

By Stephen

So many people, so many parties, so much fear. So much hate and so many mirrors, so much to disguise yet there is nowhere to hide. Looking for rocks, I feel exposed, out in the open with nowhere to hide. The holiday cheer fills me with joy, yet deep inside me is this small place […]

Filed Under: Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder Tagged With: BDD, Body, Disorder, NIGHTMARE

HOW DO WE LET GO?

By Stephen

One of the hardest things to let go of is the way we want things to be. We have fantasies of what our lives could be like, what we could be like as people, what other people should be like, what the world should be like. These are fantasies, but we rarely recognize them as […]

Filed Under: Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder Tagged With: GO, LET, OK, SO

Life is For The Living So Live It (Or You’re Better off Dead)

By Stephen

Maybe you already know this so quite possibly this is not such a big deal. But depression is just fear and anger and sadness all wrapped up in a bundle of hopelessness. I believe it has a lot to do with the feeling (or belief) that tomorrow will be just as bad as today, and […]

Filed Under: Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder Tagged With: Change, DOWNS, FORWARD, grief, MOVING, Moving Foreward, Moving Forward, test, Testing, Testing Theories

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • …
  • 17
  • Next Page »