When you look in the mirror, what do you feel? Do you acknowledge that the face in the reflection is you? I was just wondering because I had psychology classes when I was still in school and we were talking about identity and what an identity compromises. Usually people accept their face as a part of their identity, thus they don't want to change it (even if they see themselves as "ugly") because it would take away from they identity whereas people who don't feel like their physical being represents their identity change it, for example transgender people who often envision how their physical being should look like, which causes "gender dysphoria".
And I actually have some kind of theory here. When people seek surgeries to change their appearance,people often and quickly judge it as "Dysmorphophobia", which actually is the "fear" or the conviction, that specific parts of their face/body are ugly/disfigured. But I actually never heard of "body dysphoria" and even though the word dysphoria means something else, drawing the analogy from "gender dysphoria", could it be that instead of being convinced that a part of your face/body is ugly, you just do not identify with your physical being? If so, is the surgical approach of changing your face more justified (because it certainly is for transgender people).
Do you envision a different face when you see yourself? How different is the envisioned face from your actual one? Does the thought cause you "dysphoria"?
This whole thing probably makes no sense, but I haven't slept all night and these are just random thoughts which I may have not written down in proper English (I'm on my phone, I wont check).
