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Discuss, relate and vent your feelings about the obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphia.

Discuss, relate and vent your feelings about the obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphia.

/r/BDDvent

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Is it possible the days I get more compliments I could be looking the most ugly and it could all just be pity compliments as I put effort into my appearance??

When I was uglier I didn't get any compliments but I also didn't put so much effort in

Idk I think my mind just can't comprehend how much I've truly glown up ig

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2025/01/02
04:52 UTC

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Does anyone like brown eyes?

I'm just curious, because I can't stand seeing mean comments about brown eyes they're "undesirable". Who cares about some statistics? TikTok is the biggest place where I see people hate on an eye color. Seriously, people who hate on a stupid eye color have no life. That's sad.

10 Comments
2025/01/02
00:04 UTC

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body dysmorphia is ruining my life

I really don’t know what to do anymore, I know people have bigger problems and I don’t want to seem shallow but I can’t stand my face or body anymore I try to stay home and in my room as much as I can, I spend HOURS analyzing my face and pictures daily, point is it’s consuming me whole

I don’t think therapy will help because I already know the gist of what they’ll tell me, I am so drained please people with BDD what do you do to survive

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2025/01/01
18:49 UTC

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being sick actually makes me hate my body more

Idk it just makes me mad at my body. you literally failed at making me what I wanted to look like. and now you’re failing me again by getting sick?? like the least you can do is have a good immune system wtf 😭 so useless and pathetic

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2025/01/01
17:43 UTC

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posting on subreddits ruined me

someone pmed me the exact thing i was insecure about. they told me to get a rhinoplasty and i haven’t been insecure of my nose until recently. eveeyrhing about me is ugly and pathetic. i have a long masculine face and i hate it. i want to die. what a start to the new year

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2025/01/01
17:41 UTC

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I am jealous on Shilpa Manjunath ( an south-Indian actress)

I have a friend of mine who looks 97% like "Shilpa Manjunath" an south-Indian actress & she gets attention from every man she look seductress like her with a bit short height and curvy body and wears a specs .... I am getting this thoughts that every man will be attracted to her she is hyped a lot.

I don't find her good & a bit cunning from eyes but people say men and women see beauty differently so may be my thought that she can attracts any men in this world is right.

I want to know ur thoughts is it just my delusion? Everyone especially men??????? Sorry for being silly & obsessively jealous of her

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2025/01/01
17:35 UTC

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I promised myself I'll start 2025 without feeling insecure.

But unfortunately those thoughts won't leave my mind no matter what. Can't stop comparing myself to every possible girl, no matter where. I just have enough of ugliness and I’m scared it'll destroy me fully this year. I feel like the ugliest woman in the world. I can't stand the fact I'm none's type.

I'm an elegant woman, but my face and height destroy everything. I can't look in the mirror. I hate myself so much.

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2025/01/01
16:48 UTC

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i havent looked at myself in the mirror in a whole year

im not exaggerating the last time i genuinely willingly looked at my face in the mirror was christmas eve of 2023. it’s literally been over a year since i last looked in a mirror. because i just can’t stand it. idk what to do anymore. i literally don’t even know what i look like now. i alr have rly bad disassociation issues and this makes it so much worse but i just can’t stand it. it’s like i developed an actual fear of mirrors and i avoid them instinctively to the point where now i don’t even think abt it. i automatically close my eyes when i brush my teeth and immediately look away if i accidentally catch a glimpse of my reflection anywhere. it’s like become my normal. i forget sometimes that ppl can just easily look at themselves in the mirror or take pictures when i am literally terrified of it. i just can’t bring myself to do it.

literally the last time i accidentally saw a picture of myself i spent the next two days doing nothing except sleeping and self harming cause i just couldn’t take it. how tf am i supposed to look at myself when im like that??? everytime i did look at myself in the past it hurt so much. ik it’s gonna hurt again

there was a time when i’d genuinely physically jump anytime i saw something that i thought was my reflection even if it wasn’t. i showered with the lights off and couldn’t stand even just seeing my arms or anything reflected in any reflective surface ever cause i was so scared. now im a lot better but i still just can’t get myself to fully look at my face in the mirror. i mean i shower with the lights on now. like i did look at myself sometimes and i can somewhat stand it but only at my body if i have baggy clothes on on and only partially and never at my face. idk what to do anymore.

i just can’t bring myself to do it. i’ve never heard of anyone like me im so desperate. i don’t think im ever gonna recover from this. idk why im writing this and sry if its long

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2025/01/01
16:23 UTC

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dreading relationship going further… he’ll see my labia

I hate having ugly large labia. How am I meant to get naked for this guy who likes me because of my face, not body, he has no idea the kind of labia i have. He won’t be expecting an ugly one and he isn’t expecting me to be insecure either. Do I just break up with him and spare myself the embarrassment and humiliation?

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2025/01/01
16:17 UTC

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Sudden urge

Does anyone else just lie down or sit down and have the sudden urge to rip the skin off their body and reshape it to something beautiful. Or just take the skin off. I’m just lying here and it’s just horrible. I don’t want any of this on me I want to take my skin off.

2 Comments
2025/01/01
12:03 UTC

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BDD and health anxiety

Best combo in the world lol.. every time I get a trigger about something, whatever surgery or treatment I imagine will “fix it” technically affects my health which makes feel like there’s no solution and I’m doomed. Literally spiraling rn.

(and HNY!)

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2025/01/01
05:30 UTC

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I hate myself but I also wanna post myself and look at myself so much more than other people do themselves

I wanna pretend to be 18 (I'm 15) and post on somewhere like roast me and see if I get sexualized because that's what happens to the pretty girls there and if I don't it'd be proof I'm not

I can't find out a place to post my face on as a teenager right now and it's almost distressing me because I feel like I need to to see how people react to my face and see if I get dms because if I'm pretty I should and usually I don't. Why am I not hot even my body despite should be being considered hot due to my proportions probably isn't

Idk I'm litterally just staring at a photo of my face right now

Also if girls automatically like me does it mean I'm ugly? Because aren't girls meant to dislike pretty girls

Also I litterally need feedback on my appearance right now and I could post to teenagers but even I am not that dumb at the moment considering previous responses I've gotten on that sub I'll just truly know I'm ugly and then I'll cut myself probably

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2025/01/01
04:39 UTC

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Sister’s bf insulted my appearance

It’s new year’s eve and I feel like garbage now. My sister’s bf is over and he’s normally nice, if a bit blunt, and definitely extremely pushy about trying to get me to drink (I don’t drink alcohol). He seems even frustrated that I won’t imbibe with the rest of them.

Today, randomly, he told me that I have my dad’s nose. My sister and dad said no, but he said (maybe to soften the blow idk) I have the feminine version. I feel like there was something malicious about the comment because commenting on others appearances is a no no.

I was struck.. like I didn’t want to say anything to offend my dad, but he has a fleshy big nose. I feel like crying and ending everything right now.

I need to see a plastic surgeon or it’s all over.

4 Comments
2025/01/01
02:39 UTC

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Advice needed

Do you guys know how to start accepting the way I look? I really hate my face and height, but I want to make my 2025 better.

Any ideas how to overcome it? I have a round face, soft face features at all and I’m barely 5'1. I don't feel feminine, no matter how sexy I'll wear and how great my makeup will look. A lot of people told me I have an unattractive face, even my own father. I'm very insecure about myself since I was a kid. I want to change it. In August I'll finally go to therapy.

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2025/01/01
01:57 UTC

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Even after the surgery, I’ll still be hideous.

I’m so desperate to get rhinoplasty and new teeth and refuse to ‘start my life’ until I do. However even after getting the surgery I’ve dreamed of since I was 13 I’ll still feel gross because of my height, broad shoulders and feet. I innately feel like a man and it’s so disheartening.

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2024/12/31
23:09 UTC

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I really want to be average and fit

I was just told by my brother that I’m fat because I have heavy genes. Now I feel more insecure and offended by what he said about my body. I am the only one out of my siblings that’s overweight but I never thought that I was that big and heavy. I’m also really short I’m only 4’11 and I hate it. I just hate how my brother talks to me and he even called me ugly one time.

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2024/12/31
19:28 UTC

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Seriously considering rib removal surgery

I don’t have the money yet I’ll think of something. Maybe use whatever I have saved for college. I don’t know. I just give up.

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2024/12/31
17:32 UTC

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I don't deserve what I go through

I don't deserve an of it , I never hurt somebody and nover intended to .. for my entire life I only wanted one thing only .. Which is to look pretty . But I go through so much just overthinking about appearance only . I started to hate my life and myself , it's becoming exhausting to exist .

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2024/12/31
15:09 UTC

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I know what I want to look like, the issue is getting there which worsens my BDD

I know exactly what I want to look like. My BDD is like mosts,, I guess?? I have a goal, an expectation of what I should look like. I see pictures of of bambi beauty, or something like a porcelain doll, or just a cute vibe/appearance that’s similar to ingenue and soft feminine and I think “I have to look like this”. Nothing else will make me happy and I can’t settle or accept me now. I have to change and I can’t stop and give up. BDD might be in the way, but no way am I dropping everything or thinking that I can’t change things. I know I’m supposed to have this type of beauty. It’s all I ever wanted and I’m tired of being scared to be who I wanted. Atp I’m trying to stop thinking it’s impossible or doubt it. Whatever it takes to be comfortable. Even if I have to risk my life

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2024/12/31
15:05 UTC

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I hope this doesnt sound too weird.

I really want almost every ounce of fat on my body to just disappear, I know it takes time and effort, but im just so impatient with results! Im already starving myself and exercising every time after I eat, I go on long hour walks almost every day, but im barely seeing anything. I want to be skin and bones, I wish I didnt have a chest either. Not that my chest is very big anyways, but I still want it gone. I wish I was shorter too. I think im 5'2 or 5'3, which is still pretty short compared to some people, but I dont care. I want to look dead almost if that even makes sense. Like how im supposed to look. I feel like im supposed to look like that. Dead.

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2024/12/31
12:47 UTC

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Obsessed with this girl on my train

She's gorgeous and I haven't even seen her face or actual body. She's wearing a long coat but I can already tell that she has everything I DON'T. Slim feminine shoulders, beautiful hourglass shape. Beautiful legs and small waist. Effortless seeming beautiful black hair with volume and she has a lot of it and it's not frizzy like mine or anything. I couldn't control myself and took a picture and video of her secretly. I know this is highly inappropriate but screw everything. Screw my life. And now that we're on a train, some stranger is ALREADY talking to her and befriending her. Most definitely because of her beauty. Holy f...She's constantly talking to this girl I'm obsessed with and she looks SO engaged in what she has to say. I can't even get creepy old dudes to catcall me let alone anyone admiring my appearance. I look like every guys's worst nightmare. And I'm not even an unusual weight. I just got unlucky with every feature and fat distribution. I can't even live normally without suffering.

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2024/12/31
07:53 UTC

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Big vent ..pls someone tell me

I don't know if I'm pretty or not , if I'm okay looking or terrible ..

Can someone look better in pics than they do irl ? Why tf I look different each time in different situations?? It makes me act based on how I feel about myself and it's not good it's chaotic ..

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2024/12/30
23:12 UTC

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i don’t want to look just “pretty”

i want to be out of this world mesmerizing. i don’t care if im seen as pretty, i don’t care. i just want to be shocking and striking looking. almost like im not even human. i couldn’t care less about meeting the typical beauty standard but i have a specific standard in my head that greatly differs from societies

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2024/12/30
22:28 UTC

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Ugly episode

Have you ever had a period where you just feel ugly af, fat, unlovable, unattractive and it’s not just your BDD, but you feel it from people’s energy. Like constant rejection from the opposite/same sex (whatever your preference). You really haven’t changed physically, but there’s something off putting that makes people repulsed by you. It could be subtle things. I’m constantly feeling very ugly and unattractive lately, specially after the offices Christmas party where everyone hooked up except me, as I was ignored. Then, some random guy I met at the beach last week, whom I thought was flirting with me, told me he wasn’t really interested in me (after sending me a di pic). Then of course, there’s the constant unmatching on the apps after being matched (I think I’m the only girl this happens to). The other day I saw some Instagram reel about a woman trying to cope with being unattractive and ugly; and she wasn’t preaching body positivity, but realizing you’re ugly, you’re not attractive and learn to live a sexless and lonely life. Like coming to terms with it. Maybe this is my life; accepting that I’m the ugly lonely woman who is unlovable and unfuckable.

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2024/12/30
21:44 UTC

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always the single friend

so me and two friends of mine (all girls) were traveling yesterday by train - long story short, we have the same hometown and visited it on the holidays.

I was the last one to join them at the train station, and I wish I didn’t meet up with them at all - they both were with their partners, who were escorting them, helping with bags and such and saying goodbye.

Lately, I’m feeling really depressed because of studying and… well, being ugly and single. And this thing just crushed me.

I’m 21 damned years old and I’m the only one who doesn’t have anybody to miss me. if only I was pretty, if only by body was ok, maybe I wouldn’t be alone among those couples, maybe I would know how it feels when someone misses you. I mean, it’s impossible to miss someone as ugly as me, someone with such body. if just kills me, I just want one, ONE, person to love me. I wish I could come back in a week and there would be someone waiting for me at the train station or at home.

I just know I’m not wishing for love this New Year, it’s damn useless

1 Comment
2024/12/30
20:24 UTC

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Someone save me 😭 my bdd making me do weird things

Guys ?! I just do random stuff can't even say .i take random decisions based on how I feel about myself.

0 Comments
2024/12/30
18:37 UTC

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Am I only like this?

When I get "compliments", I don't believe in them because I'm bullied because of my appearance since I was 8 (I still remember when two girls wanted to pour an acid on me only because I was ugly)

I like when people say I'm ugly, hideous, disgusting etc, because I'm used to it and I think about myself this way, so I appreciate those people, knowing they're honest. But when someone tries to "convice" me that I'm "pretty", I can't help but want to cry. Literally, I got some comments which say I'm gorgeous, pretty etc, I just don't believe in that and feel like they're lying to me. It's annoying me and makes me cry at once.

5 Comments
2024/12/30
18:16 UTC

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If I’m not beautiful I have nothing

If I don’t have beauty then there will be nothing about me that’s worth loving. I’m not smart, I dropped out of school before I was even 16. I don’t have a pleasant personality, I’m easily irritable and full of hate. I’m a failure of a human and I don’t even have the looks to make up for it.

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2024/12/30
16:35 UTC

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I need money to fix this and my life

Honestly guys I feel like I'm not lucky to have any of those effortless beauty features : straight easy hair , clear vibrant skin , beautiful eyes , dense lashes ..

Nothing , I look terrible without my hair done or skin not hydrated or getting a bit less of sleep ..

I see average people outside and everyone has at least one of these . While I gotta fix nd work on everything

0 Comments
2024/12/30
13:05 UTC

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I'm too ugly to be considered a woman

I'm so horrendously ugly I can't feel feminine or like a woman at all. A trans woman probably has more femininity than me. I have disgusting hair that is permanently damaged, wearing more makeup makes me look even worse, my skin tone is disgusting I hate being tanned. Not even being skinny makes up for me being this horrendously ugly, I'm such a butterface. I have no idea what to do anymore. Nothing will make me feel feminine, I feel so embarrassed when I wear dresses. I feel like a guy stuck in a girls body I probably 100% am. And I feel like people can tell.

0 Comments
2024/12/30
12:56 UTC

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