Was it difficult to overcome BDD?
Overcoming BDD is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through. Because you have in your head that there's something wrong with you and that it is wrong with you, it's not a disease. So really trying to like figure out what the disease was and then clicking in my head that I have something that's making me think I look a certain way that's not really there. And also you have to completely give yourself to the treatment and just sort of be like, "I'm not going to fight anymore, I'm going to do what they say to get better." It was not an overnight thing. It was two full years of treatment, constantly, every single day for two years. It was getting my life back together. It was going from being a baby who lived in my room to start making friends, to get a job, to get school, to be able to eat food myself, to be able to cut my own food. I mean these little learning things that I had forgotten how to do because I wasn't doing them for so long I had to start over again. And then even once I was out of every day treatment, you know, treatment to make sure the medication was OK. And now it was kind of like I had to re-learn my life. I had to get confidence back. I had to get my life back.
