What is body dysmorphia?

I feel it is when you think your body looks horrendous regardless of what anyone else says to you. It is looking in the mirror and feeling utter shame for your body isn't good enough. It is a thought planting into the very core of our brain since we're young and to abolish it completely would be hard, but not impossible.

This is a type of anxiety that causes a person to view themselves differently and causes you to spend a lot of time worrying about your appearance.

Most of us have something we don't like about our appearance — a crooked nose, an uneven smile, or eyes that are too large or too small. And though we may fret about our imperfections, they don’t interfere with our daily lives. But people who have body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) think about their real or perceived flaws for hours each day. They can't control their negative thoughts and don't believe people who tell them that they look fine. Their thoughts may cause severe emotional distress and interfere with their daily functioning. They may miss work or school, avoid social situations and isolate themselves, even from family and friends, because they fear others will notice their flaws.

From how I understand it, body dysmorphia is a reaction to perceived flaws on one's own body. Feelings of anxiety or self-hatred could come up following fixation on a certain body part(s), whether or not anybody outside of the sufferer can perceive the same flaws or not.

Body dysmorphia (sometimes termed BDD, or body dysmorphic disorder) is a psychiatric disorder in which the individual becomes preoccupied with a particular feature of their body and view it to be unacceptable or flawed. It lies on the OCD spectrum and often involves repeated checking of the body part thought to be ugly, but which to others would appear normal or significantly less flawed than the sufferer perceives it. In eating disorders body dysmorphia can also be seen and suffers may see themselves as much larger than they are in reality, although this is distinguished from BDD, and is considered a symptom of the eating disorder.

Body dysmorphia involves an inaccurate perception of ones own body shape or type. This may range from being unable to see that you are severely underweight due to a belief that you 'too fat', or vice versa.thus may also involve seeing a facial disfiguration for example, that is not as intense as one believes, or may not exist. The main idea is that one tends to hold a negative belief regarding their physical appearance, where the image they see is inaccurate, and represents the issue they have with their appearance - they will struggle to satisfy their need to be muscular for example, as they will always see themselves as inadequate and won't recognise the muscle they do have. It takes a lot of work for them to understand and value themselves accurately and positively, as they must overcome the intrusive thoughts and potentially the comments others have made that have aided in this feeling of inadequacy.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is an anxiety disorder that causes a person to have a distorted view of how they look and to spend a lot of time worrying about their appearance. For example, they may be convinced that a barely visible scar is a major flaw that everyone is staring at, or that their nose looks abnormal.

Body dysmorphia is not feeling comfortable in the body you are, like feeling you were born the wrong gender. This is what drives a lot of transexual people, to transition

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a distinct mental disorder in which a person is preoccupied with an imagined physical defect or a minor defect that others often cannot see.

Well, body dysmorphia is defined as a psychological disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with imaginary defects in their appearance. When someone has body dysmorphia they tend to obsess over certain features out of insecurity and fear.