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How to balance body dysmorphia with reality checking

My body dysmorphia is so bad that I avoid reflective surfaces but then I forget what I look like and that's somehow worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Extreme avoidance of visual self-confrontation creates additional dissociation from embodied identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body image and self-perception?”

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