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Founder and executive director, Westwood Institute for Anxiety Disorders, Los Angeles
According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-V) (2013), BDD is classified under obsessive-compulsive and related disorders and requires four...
In many cases, the individual is driven to pick so as to seek a release of tension, either immediately before picking the skin or when attempting to resist the urge to pick. A release of tension, as...
BDD is a psychiatric disorder in which individuals see themselves as ugly, and they distressingly obsess over a slight perceived physical ‘defect’ in their appearance for at least 1 hour per day...
BDD, or the disease of self-perceived ugliness, is a psychiatric disorder in which afflicted individuals have a pervasive distortion of their self-image, usually by having persistent preoccupations,...
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