Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder was first recognized as a distinct condition in 1987 by the American Psychiatric Association, and 1997 by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV. It is listed in the DSM IV as a Somatoform disorder. Body dysmorphic disorder is an excessive preoccupatio....
Moving Towards self acceptance
Moving Towards Self-Acceptance
How an individual perceives her self physically can significantly influence how she perceives and responds to others, to her relationships, to her environment, and to her life objectives and potential. Self-image can positively or negatively affect an individualÂ’....
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go.....
Self Image
SELF IMAGE
The importance of image in American society has become drastically obsessive. The way a person looks has become an obsession, and unhappiness about the way a person looks causes them to have low self-esteem and even despair. Media has helped achieve a level of need for women today to....
teen plastic surgery
Teens today explore new ways of enhancing their external appearance. They have switched from the old makeover routine to the modern plastic surgery that they believe will define their new looks. Nowadays more and more teens are searching for ways to become something that they are not. Plastic surger....