body dysmorphic disorder?

[Binayshee]

sorry

[syn]

I don't have it, but I know what it is, and I feel for you, I bet it's a difficult thing to deal with day to day, and you have my support.

[claire]

people were talking about this before? didn't emily have a thread or am i deluded... cos i can't find it?

so i think this means your definatly not alone ...

and like redsyrinx i know about it and it must be awful to have to deal with.

[Skyeler]

I've never been formally diagnosed with it, but it's been highly suggested that I have it.

when it gets really bad I have no way of deal with it except freezing in one spot and freaking out for awhile.

so I'm not much help, but I know how it feels.

[Licentia Poetica]

That thread is here

http://buslist.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php? ... highlight=

You know, once in a while (uually when i'm wearing fairly generic clothing) I'll accidentally glance at myself in a shop window or reflection or whatever, and for the split second that I think I'm looking at someone else, my mind thinks "oh look at them I wish I could be them". & then I realise its me & the ugliness & fatness comes back.

It's the strangest thing.

I think you just need to keep on and on reminding yourself that your mind plays tricks on you. The sooner you accept that the better. You do not see yourself the way you are in reality.

I find the way I see myself to change according to what I've eaten. If I've eaten a lot today for example.. then I'll look at photos of myself.. even *old* photos and they seem fatter than when I saw them last.

Keep separating logic from disorder.

El

[Binayshee]

hey redsyrinx, claire, skyeler and el

thanks very much for your replies to my
post. i've been up and down alot lately,
having a lot of mixed feelings and stuff,
and deleted my original message, but
i wanted you to know that i really did
appreciate that. it meant alot to me,
because that's a very hard/vulnerable
"thing" for me. anyway, thanks.

*hugs*

helika