What was the hardest part of treatment for BDD?
The hardest part of treatment for BDD was facing my fears and actually going through with,with doing things I was so afraid of doing. Some of them were treatment based where my doctor would partake with me. Going back to when I was young and putting lotion under my eyes to make my under eye circles look better and have my skin break out. So now in my head, lotion equals skin breaking out, so I would, I would avoid lotion like the plague. So you know one of my treatments was to put lotion on my hand, my arms, not to wash my hands, to touch my face, to touch my body, and to really sit with it for an hour. Other things was I didn't drive anybody in my car, I didn't let anyone touch my bed, I didn't let anyone touch my personal things, so was having my therapist come to my house and lying in my bed and touching my personal things and driving her around the block. And it really helped because it would allow me to realize that all these fears I had were just in my head and I didn't die, my skin didn't break out, but actually facing those fears, it was like the end of the world, your BDD is so in control, and now that you know what it is, and you know it's coming, it's disease, it's in control, it's bossing you around and it's telling you, you can't do this.
