News tagged with body dysmorphic disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder patients who loathe appearance often get better, but it could take years
In the longest-term study so far to track people with body dysmorphic disorder, a severe mental illness in which sufferers obsess over nonexistent or slight defects in their physical appearance, researchers at Brown University ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Does cosmetic surgery help body dysmorphic disorder?
A new study finds that while many who suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) seek cosmetic procedures, only two percent of procedures actually reduced the severity of BDD. Despite this poor long-term outcome, physicians ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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New therapy to overcome body dysmorphic disorder
A nose job to treat a mental health problem? Teeth whitening to overcome a severe anxiety disorder? These are just two procedures that people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have traditionally turned to in order to deal ...
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Jun 28, 2010 |
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Why the mirror lies: Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder see their own faces differently
Everyone checks themselves in the mirror now and then, but that experience can be horrifying for individuals suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, a psychiatric condition that causes them to believe, wrongly, that ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2010 |
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