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Dontknowwhattodo:
is there anybody else here, anybody, that feels that there is something wrong with their face, or any other part of the body, but when they ask other people, they cant notice and just say "its not as big as you think it is"? Or is anybody here who have been diagnosed with BDD by a psychiatrist?

Where you convinced that you have BDD? That the problem you had with your face was all in your brain? or where you able to prove that you were right by I dont know, consulting a maxillofacial surgeon or taking CT scans or something? Cuz thats what I'm planning to do.

I believe that any doctor that you go to, even if they are paid by insurance and dont care if you come back to them or not, just want to diagnose you with something related to their field, So for example if you actually have a physical problem with your face and go to a psychiatrist, he/she assumes right from the beginning that you have a mental problem and thats why you are there so he/she will tell you have its all in your brain... While if you had gone to a dentist, or orthodontics, or a plastic surgeon, They would say that you are right and even point out things that you had not noticed yourself before..

Gregor Samsa:
Some things are less subjective than others. If a surgeon takes x-rays of your face and can show with measurements that there's something wrong with it then that holds more weight to me than the pseudo science that psychiatrists practice.

Dontknowwhattodo:
A really interesting thing about BDD is how even alot of psychiatrist don't know very well about it. They say that the person who has BDD sees himself/herself in a distorted way, not just in reflection in the mirror but also in the pictures and ... . Now the problem is that I have read that visual hallucination is a rare thing even in schizophrenia! which is one of the worst, if not the worst, kind of mental illness. So I dont think and I cant believe it that one can see a wrong image of him/herself in pictures! Even when I told the psychatrist that what if I bring CT scans that show that there is something wrong with my skull, he said well even then you might be seeing it wrong! I mean, you know it doesn't make sense to me how I can be seeing everything wrong and distored while Im a sane person in ever other way?!

Tiny:

A lot of people are going to say "it's not that bad" even if it is.  It's like, if you had a friend who was a bit chubby, and they complained that they felt fat, would you turn round and agree "yes, you are pretty fat!" - of course not


--- Quote from: Gregor Samsa on August 13, 2014, 11:19:29 AM ---Some things are less subjective than others. If a surgeon takes x-rays of your face and can show with measurements that there's something wrong with it then that holds more weight

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Exactly.  Certain things can be quantified.  However, quantified measurements look different on different faces.  Some faces can 'get away' with a jaw discrepancy and still look attractive, more than others (e.g. women with class 3 looks worse than a guy because of fit, and vice versa for class 2.  A face with a small nose doesn't look as bad with class 2 than a face with a large nose etc


--- Quote from: Gregor Samsa on August 13, 2014, 11:19:29 AM --- to me than the pseudo science that psychiatrists practice.

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It's not all pseudo science.  Many majorly depressed people have legitimately higher levels of monoamine oxidase A, and correspondingly low serotonin and dopamine.

Gregor Samsa:

--- Quote from: Tiny on August 15, 2014, 10:22:28 AM ---A lot of people are going to say "it's not that bad" even if it is.  It's like, if you had a friend who was a bit chubby, and they complained that they felt fat, would you turn round and agree "yes, you are pretty fat!" - of course not
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I would!  ;D

I'd rather have people tell me the truth than try to sugarcoat everything. Imagine that you walked around with bad breath and didn't know because no one told you so. Sometimes you're doing people a disservice by hiding the truth from them.

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