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Coming Back for More

By Stephen

No matter what I do it is there, it is always there, it is prodding me, poking me, tormenting me.

“It” whatever “it” is has stolen my life.

And you don’t deserve to have it. Who are you anyway and where did you come from?

I am not sure I was ever whole, but how dare you relegate me to the sidelines.

How dare you have the audacity to think you run things here.

This is my life, and you, “it” can go fuck yourself.

I will call you BDD because that is the name they give you.

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter to me, you are just an evil mother fucker in my book who has stolen my life from me.

Yours, is a self-conscious, egocentric world that I don’t live in.

But you have cuffed me and chained me to this.

You are my abuser that I can’t let go of.

And I keep coming back for more.

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

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About Stephen

My name is Stephen and I was officially diagnosed with BDD in October of 2012. I have lived with it my whole life. This blog is my story, my shame, and my path to recovery. It starts on Day 1 of my new life. To live, and love myself, to teach others how to do the same, and learn more about what it means to live with body dysmorphic disorder. Here are some resources that I use...