Are women more susceptible to BDD?

Are women 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...

People often think, "This must be a problem that mostly women have." Eating disorders are--actually mostly women have eating disorders, but it's pretty close male to female in terms of number of people that suffer from BDD. It's almost 50-50. The recent research has shown that it's probably more like 60 percent of people with BDD are female and 40 percent are male, but it's pretty close, one to one.