What are the warning signs of BDD?
People with BDD, they experience some things internally, like emotionally they usually feel depressed, they feel ashamed, they feel anxious, concerned about whether people think about them. And then there's the external symptoms, like signs that someone can actually observe them doing, and so those are mirror checking is very common one, or mirror avoiding, scrutinizing other people's appearance, comparing to their own. With BDD They may do what we call camouflaging where they try to cover up or change something about their appearance or use make-up to cover up something. And they may actually pursue cosmetic surgery or dermatology procedures to change what they think is defective about them.