What is body dysmorphia?

The way you perceive yourself and your body is not how others perceive you in reality

When you have a distorted view of your own body in a negative way. You see yourself too thin, thick, weak, etc. You see characteristics on yourself that are not true and are hurtful.

When someone has body dysmorphia, they usually have an inaccurate view of their own bodies. For example, they may believe that their bodies are bigger or smaller than they actually are, which can sometimes trigger disordered eating behaviors.

Personal disconnection from your body and heavy dissociation caused by your body not looking like your brain/yourself perceives.

A mental illness involving obsessive focus on a perceived flaw in appearance.

Body dysmorphia is seeing yourself often significantly differently than how others would see you, typically revolving around a specific part of our bodies or overall appearance. It's a preoccupation with a perceived flaw in how we look, such as a slim person perceiving their thighs to be extremely large, 'fat', and somewhere where they need to lose more weight from, when objectively they may not be what the individual thinks of them as at all.

Not seeing yourself the way you should. You see and feel differently about yourself than what is true.

Body dysmorphic disorder is a mental disorder in which you can't stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or flaws in your appearance — a flaw that, to others, is either minor or not observable. But you may feel so ashamed and anxious that you may avoid many social situations.

Body dysmorphia is when you are no longer able to visualise how you look because your self image has become warped.

Body Dysmorphia is when you do not feel like you are the body you were born in, and you want to be the person you have dreamed of becoming. You feel as if you are trapped, and you want nothing more than to get out of your outside self and be who you want to be, which is the you that you hold inside of your body. A lot of people describe this as being transgender, but I believe it's more than that. It's wanting to be someone you were destined to be when you just weren't born with that body.