Are certain personalities more susceptible to BDD?

Are certain personalities more susceptible to 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...

Well, something that has actually been studied is the trait of perfectionism, so the trait of perfectionism is very common in people with BDD. And that would be perfectionism not just about their own appearance, but about other things as well: schoolwork, work, anything else. So that is one thing that may make somebody a little more susceptible to it, and also the propensity to have obsessive type of thinking, meaning that they have a hard time not thinking about something, thoughts keep coming back; that that probably also is an underlying trait that predisposes somebody to developing this problem.