It started slowly. Benignly. With a weigh-in here. An extra glance at the mirror there. But I didn't give "it" much thought. I was 15, after all. Obsessing over my appearance was—or, at the very least ...

Joseph scrolls through Twitter, his feed refreshing over and over again, but he doesn’t read the words. He puts on television shows like “Breaking Bad,” but he doesn’t watch them. Instead, he fixates ...

"Has your body dysmorphia grown worse from looking at yourself on Zoom the entire pandemic or are you normal?" one Zoom user asked on Twitter. "I start all Zoom meetings in the evening with, 'the body ...

"Standing in front of the mirror I dragged my hairbrush through my fringe. Still doesn't look right. Do it again. I reached for my towel and headed back to the bathroom. I was supposed to meet my ...

While eating disorders have been widely publicized for decades, far less attention has been given to a related condition called body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD. Body dysmorphic disorder is often ...

One in every 50 people may have body dysmorphic disorder. Robyn Stern, a licensed clinical social worker in New York, has missed weeks and months of her life due to body dysmorphic disorder, an ...

There have been times in my life where body dysmorphia made even simple activities and interactions difficult to bear. Obsessive thoughts about my skin, my legs and the overall shape of my body were ...