I am reading a wonderful book, if not the only real book on the successful treatment and management of BDD. It is called Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder by Katharine A. Phillips. It has been helpful. It has given me both clarity and confusion. Sometimes as a BDD sufferer the hardest thing to do is to differentiate […]
Acne and The Makings of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
MY ESCAPE I am thirty-five. Day one of this blog should have started over 18 years ago. But I was living in denial. The constant mirror checking, the self-hatred, the shame, the fear of catching my reflection in a car window… The inability to enter a dressing room. As a man, the shame was even […]