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Why does nobody talk about how bad body dysmorphia hurts?

How everyday is a battle with yourself in the mirror, how it takes 2 hours to get ready because you've gone through every outfit in your wardrobe and nothing looks good enough on you. How looking in the mirror feels like a punch in the gut. Complete and utter disgust. Deep seated pain and envy that you will never be able to be that perfect skinny girl with the perfect figure that everyone adores and even if people do tell you that you swear they're lying. The worst part of it all is that everyone confuses body dysmorphia for vanity because you never stop looking at yourself in the mirror always changing outfits always posing in anything that has a reflection when you pass by but not because you're happy with what you're seeing because you have to constantly have an idea of what you think other people are seeing you as have to know exactly where your pants are sitting on your waist have to constantly suck your gut in and hold your arms a certain way so that other people will see you in a certain pose that you think is going to make you look thinner. it consumes my entire brain my entire life and I don't know how to get rid of it I literally don't know how to see myself any other way and it hurts so bad I'm so tired of crying everyday because I'm not happy with myself.
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REMsleep · 41-45, F
Seek help. One of the key things that professional help will bring is perspective because body dysmorphia is about perspective.
You will find the root cause of your hypercritical perspective and work to correct it.
In this world there are so many people who look better than you and probably even more that look worse than you. Some people are literally missing limbs, have major birth marks, lost hair, my little cousin has a long leg severely longer than the other leg. That same side of his face is a little larger too. Some say it makes him look scary.
Yet these people do not have the image issues that you have because its all about perspective.
Good luck on your journey to a healthier perspective.