Body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and embodiment

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Craig Heacock MD

Psychiatry, Bipolar, Suicide, Depression, Ketamine, Psychotherapy, Science, Psychedelics, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health

4.8 • 452 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Body dysmorphia is the disorder of imagined ugliness, a type of delusional OCD that can lead to severe depression, eating disorders, compulsive body alterations, and suicidality. As a young child, Georgina was a "cute kid", not particularly self-conscious, and able to move through her world without undue pain. With the onset of adolescence, however, her self-image changed completely-- she suddenly found her face horribly ugly, she felt helpless and hopeless, and she frantically tried to...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Back from the Abyss.
0:12.0	I'm Dr. Craig Ecock.
0:14.0	I'm recording this on the day after Thanksgiving, and I've been giving a lot of thought to
0:19.0	what I'm thankful for, what I'm grateful for.
0:22.4	Yesterday at Thanksgiving, I asked everybody around the table what was a highlight of 2021.
0:27.7	And one thing that popped in my head was hiking five days of the Colorado Trail with my identical twin girls who are now 20.
0:35.0	That was just such a lifetime highlight.
0:37.3	Another one that I didn't
0:38.2	mention because I thought, oh, I'll just mention this today during recording is just doing season
0:42.9	three of the podcast. You know, Chris and I contemplated ending it after season two. We were both
0:49.2	just pretty burned out after COVID and doing the remote recordings and not getting to hang out, but we've really
0:55.4	been recharged this season. And one of the things I'm so grateful for is all the letters and
1:01.6	phone calls and I should say emails, nobody sends a letter, the emails and text and phone calls
1:07.6	from all of you. It's so heartening and it's just amazing to know that this
1:13.5	podcast is reaching so many people and it's doing what I'd hoped. You know, when Chris and I first started
1:20.2	talking about this in early 2019. So I love the emails that people are sending and the iTunes reviews are such love letters.
1:30.6	I read those and sometimes I tear up.
1:32.2	I think that's so sweet what you're writing.
1:35.2	I really appreciate that.
1:36.7	So today, I want to just start with a letter that I got recently that I thought was so interesting.
1:41.9	And this guy and I have been emailing back and
1:45.1	forth. He always sends me really interesting questions, but let me just read today's letter. This came
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