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In People With Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Distorted Self-Image Could Be The Result Of The Brain’s Abnormal Processing Of Visual Input
February 3, 2010 by NewsBot
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 they appear disfigured and ugly. These people tend to fixate on minute details - every tiny blemish looms huge - rather than viewing their face as a whole...