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Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Aka: Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- See Also
- Anxiety Disorder
- Anxiety Secondary Cause
- Anxiety Symptoms
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
- Acute Stress Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Excessive Worry
- Anxiety Non-pharmacologic Management
- Anxiety Pharmacologic Management
- Epidemiology
- Incidence
- General population: 1.9%
- Psychiatric outpatients: 12%
- Pursuit of surgical correction in 50% of BDD patients
- Risk Factors
- Not married
- Living with parents
- Female college student
- Associated Conditions
- Anorexia
- Atypical Depression
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Social Anxiety
- Signs
- Preoccupation with physical appearance
- Facial flaws are most common preoccupation
- Imagined defect or Slight defect
- Associated Compulsive Behaviors
- Mirror checking
- Excessive grooming
- Skin picking
- Disordered functioning
- Severe distress
- Impaired work or social functioning
- Suicidal Ideation or attempt
- Management
- Treating the physical "defect" does not resolve Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Crerand (2005) Psychosomatics 46(6): 549-55 [PubMed]
- Pharmacotherapy is similar to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
- Requires high end of dosing range
- Clomipramine (Anafranil)
- Resources
- Claiborn (2002) The BDD Workbook, New Harbinger Publications
- Paid link to Amazon.com (ISBN 1572242930)
- Phillips (2005) The Broken Mirror, Oxford University Press
- Paid link to Amazon.com (ISBN 0195167198)
- References
- Hollander (1999) Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:1033-9 [PubMed]
- Hunt (2008) Am Fam Physician 78(2): 217-2 [PubMed]