Do the concerns or defects remain the same over time?

Do the concerns or defects remain the same over time?

Jamie Feusner (Psychiatrist, Professor, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: How does BDD get started?; How does BDD progress?; Can BDD affect children? and more...

BDD can evolve over time in terms of what somebody's concerned about. And sometimes what happens is that they kind of find more and more things they think are defective, so they're adding to their list of the things they think are defective and feeling more and more ugly. For other people one thing may be prominent at one period of time and then it gets replaced by something else. So, for some reason, either spontaneously or for some other reason, it switches and then now they're focused on their breasts and they used to be focused on their hair. Or now they're focused on their muscularity and they used to be focused on their nose.