453 BDD vs Body Image vs OCD (with Chris Tronsden)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Kimberley Quinlan and Chris Trondsen break down how to tell BDD apart from body image concerns, OCD, eating disorders, gender dysphoria, BFRBs, and more—plus the right treatment moves for each.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everybody. I am so honored to have Chris Trondston here with me again doing almost what I would call a part two of talking all about body dysmorphic disorder. |
| 0:14.8 | But we've already gone through a lot about what is body dysmorphic disorder and what helps and what doesn't help in a previous |
| 0:22.2 | episode. Do go and check that out if you haven't listened yet. But today we are now going to |
| 0:28.1 | talk about the difference between BDD, body image, OCD, eating disorders, gender dysphoria, |
| 0:37.2 | some of these names you may not have heard of before, |
| 0:40.3 | body focused repetitive behaviors and how to tell the difference. So welcome back, Chris. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for having me back on. I always tell people like anything BDD related I could talk about for years. So thanks for part two. And I'm excited. |
| 0:55.4 | Actually, we were talking about it off camera, but this is probably the theme of this podcast, |
| 0:59.7 | the number one thing I get asked in consultation from clinicians, just about the different |
| 1:04.4 | ways that certain things can show up. And there's such a differential diagnosis and people |
| 1:09.8 | say, but I don't know what it is. So I'm just |
| 1:11.6 | really excited that we're going to go through this one. So thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much. |
| 1:17.2 | And again, for those who don't know, Chris and I have recently recorded an entire course for clinicians |
| 1:25.1 | who want to learn exactly the steps that Chris takes and that I take |
| 1:29.7 | of treating people with BDD. It is a deep, deep dive. And we go step by step of all the steps |
| 1:37.6 | we even do some. We're acting it out. Chris is showing me how to do some as if I'm the |
| 1:43.2 | client. We're doing some role play. |
| 1:45.7 | Amazing, amazing training by you, Chris. I'm so impressed and so proud. And we also have a course |
| 1:52.1 | for BDD sufferers coming out as well. So that is so so exciting. Yes, I know. I'm excited for that |
| 1:59.1 | one too. A lot of people around the globe cannot always access |
| 2:02.3 | evidence-based care. So to have something that is real quality, everything that CBT school puts out |
| 2:07.4 | is absolutely top tier. So I'm really excited that a lot of people that may not even be comfortable |
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