Body Dysmorphic Disorder - I Want To Take My Face Off

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you spend hours of your day obsessing over a million little wrinkles and scars all over your face. Obsessing to the point where it cuts into your social & work life. To the point where you become depressed and suicidal. Imagine everyone around you tells you that they don’t see what you see… except for your sister. Your twin sister. She sees what you see. And you see the same scars on her face. Obviously it must be real then right?! Nah. That’s Body Dysmorphic Disorder yo. This week we talk to Ev about her trippy experience with BDD that she shared with her identical twin. Jeremie obsesses over his acne, Brian doesn’t understand at first but then has a life changing revelation. Taylor, well Taylor just does his thang. Ya know?

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0:00.0	All right, I got a big question. How do you feel about aging? Maybe you've got a fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of change.
0:06.8	Because certainly how we look starts to change. The actor Amanda Pete has given it a lot of thought over the years. She's been in the public eyes since the 90s.
0:14.5	She'll tell you why her new film, Fantasy Life has her thinking about validation, about vanity, and what she thinks about cosmetic surgery and whether
0:22.0	or not to get it.
0:23.4	You'll hear that conversation now.
0:24.9	Just search for Q with Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	This is a CBC podcast.
0:33.6	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:37.6	This week's guest is Ev.
0:39.4	She has body dysmorphic disorder.
0:41.8	Let's talk about it.
1:00.6	Um, Uh, did your friend know what Sequo was?
1:02.1	Fuck this guy.
1:03.2	Who's this Joker?
1:04.5	He's like my best friend in Toronto.
1:05.8	Oh, I hate him already.
1:07.8	Yeah, God, sounds like a terrible person. I was kidding.
1:10.2	I hope he doesn't listen now. I feel bad. So what are we, Ev, what are we here to talk about? We are here to talk about BDD. Yeah. So we, this is our second body dysmorphic disorder. Right. Episode. Right. When was your last one? Our last one was about a year ago.
1:30.8	Was it that long ago?
1:31.6	Yeah, it was that long ago.
1:32.9	I remember we had a whole debacle where we recorded a bunch of episodes in my apartment
1:36.3	instead of in our studio.
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