Can teasing or criticism trigger BDD?

Can teasing or criticism trigger 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...

Teasing or criticism certainly can trigger BDD. Most likely they're not the cause of BDD, because pretty much everybody has been teased at some time in their life and not everybody develops BDD. But it can trigger it in the sense that somebody can start thinking about something that they're teased about and perhaps start focusing in on it and perceive it as being defective and going into a whole negative spiral through their thinking about it.