Are beauty and fitness magazine images to blame for BDD?

Are beauty and fitness magazine images to blame for BDD?

Jamie Feusner (Psychiatrist, Professor, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: What causes BDD?; Is BDD a brain disease?; What do MRI images tell us about the brains of people with BDD? and more...

A lot of people think the media has a lot to do with body dysmorphic disorder, that the media places so much importance on appearance and that maybe this is causing people to be overly concerned about it. But the way that I see it is that the media focus on appearance makes people suffer more who already have BDD, but probably doesn't actually cause it. So if they're bombarded with images all the time of a lot of people that are very beautiful or that are enhanced in some way, they may feel worse about themselves. But again, it probably didn't cause it. Especially because in other countries where the media's not so focused on appearance, like for example in Germany, the rate of BDD was the same as the group they studied who were American.