This highlights a lot of issues I face. If anyone would like to chat through a WhatsApp group please get in touch with me. I’ll create one and share. Maybe we can help each other through this horrible disorder.

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@@Davidahernchannel you wont be helping anyone in a group for BDD unless its supervised by a psychologist,its a recipe for disaster.

How are you doing now?

@@emilia2647 honestly a lot better, this was mainly a phase for me. A long one don’t get me wrong, but I think maturing and getting emotionally stronger has made life so much better and worth living. I don’t think I have or ever had this condition anymore

me to, people dont know whats it like living with this disorder.

Same

Same... ugh

Hang in there

I had severe bdd from 18 until 45,suicidal on and off for that entire time,now at almost 50 I'm almost entirely free of it due to a 4 month residential program,I dont feel the same about my reflection at all.

How did you deal with it, can you please help me

@@suhailabaricz1161 I didn't deal with it ,things only changed for me with the intensity of residential treatment and took 3 months of that all day,every day until I felt a change in how much of my thoughts it occupied and the intensity of emotion felt.I did compassion focussed group therapy, CBT three times per week,imagery rescripting for childhood bullying ,attention retraining technique twice per day.I basically made therapy my full time job and every patient there was the same,peer support and pressure when needed.I had tried CBT maybe 100 sessions and failed along with every medication known prior to going to hospital.

@@suhailabaricz1161 I realized I picked my skin and pulled my hair as an outlet for pentup (nervous) energy. I established that there MUST be a better way. I worked on loving myself; on forgiveness and letting go. Speaking about it helped. I stopped caring about "my condition" so much, stopped guarding my secret. Let it out. I stopped staring at myself in the mirror, got real honest eith myself: whatever I was trying to fix didn't get fixed by my "fixing", it just made it worse. I accepted that I am not perfect and never will be. Who cares anyway, I don't mind what other people look like, so why obsess over my own appearance? Nobody cares. What matters is KINDNESS. Can i be kind to myself, the way I am kind to others? This took a while, but I started to change the way I saw myself, and stopped punishing myself for my past mistakes. I became a better, more loving person. Less hard - much softer. My attitude to this life changed, I am so grateful for my life now less painful 🙏🏼❤️ I hope you find your way. Only Love heals. The wound is where Light enters you. Feel what needs to be felt, find the root cause, the issue you aren't yet acknowledging (for me it was the pain and deep seated fear of rejection). Still working on this, but more directly, in my heart and mind. Now I use my hands to heal/mend/create only, not to inflict more trauma. Ahimsa, non-violence. Fear is the beginning and end of the road of suffering. Face it head-on and you level up. A new plateau of joyful play and curious experimentation, a true kind of intimacy and getting to know yourself, is waiting for you. Open up and enjoy what lies within you. You are immaculate.

Can you suggest a group or groups around the LA/Pasadena area that I can attend. I don’t have to be diagnosed. I now know and have a name of what I have been suffering for 80 years. For you being a male with this disorder was an issue. For me being ashamed that people will think of me as shallow, as being vein or narcissistic. I really need some relief if nothing else but to talk about it with other people who understand the problem. I have missed countless opportunities (including not finishing college and not getting married) during the course of my life. All I ever felt was deep shame and no matter how I camouflaged it at the most important stepping stones of my life I gave in to the shame rather than to move forward. There is nothing more that I would like to have in my life now than to have a community where I can talk about this curse that has plagued me all my life. Your honest sharing of the difficulties you went through touched me very deeply. I welcome and will be most grateful if you can provide me with some groups dealing with this issue.

@@millacolic I live in Ireland and there's very little awareness here but I managed to contact The BDD Foundation. There based in England but they provided me with good information and advice going forward. I would try to get in contact with them asap. They can help.

@@johnnylynch2290 there was a free group in st Pat's in Dublin I used to attend back in the day,it was supervised by professionals.However,its not treatment so you will need that to see any improvement. I had it for 28 yrs,treated unsuccessfully many times both in and out of hospital .Eventually I was sent to the Bethlem in London and came out cured,that was 4 yrs ago.It can be a massively devastating disorder and a big risk for suicide.

@@scarred10 I appreciate the info, delighted to hear you came out the other side 👍. I managed to get a diagnosis and have been steadily improving over the the last few months. The fact you got it under control gives me extra confidence and will surely give anyone who reads your comment the same. Wish you all the best going forward. 👍👍

I hope it’s not too late for you and me. I’m around your age and am only now looking to get help. I want to be able to be happy in this life. I think you can have that too. We can at least try.

Hang in there- get some help if you can!

Im 17 and its the same for me.. try to talk to someone please dont let it get worse again, Im here if needed.

❤️❤️

It hasn't gotten better for you? :(

Thank you so much 😀

Sometimes I feel urge to act more appealing way especially when I’m in the company of men. So it really doesn’t mean anything, I just try to camoufalge my uglyness. Try not to take it too personal.