Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, thank you from Julie and I to all of the, you can't believe how many followers we have with this program, but it's with extreme gratitude that we're able to do this program, shed light on mental health, legitimize it, destigmatize it, and still a sense of hope.

I try to get back to as many people as possible.

If I haven't gotten back to you, I know I'm scheduled to talk to a bunch of people this week.

I'll give you my contact information at the end of this episode.

As always, I do this program organically, which drives Julie crazy.

She's like, you have the entire week to think of a topic.

Can you please think of something?

And that's just not how my mind works.

So, wrestling with different topics, I decided to focus on one that I've seen increasingly doing

neuropsychiavall body dysmorphic disorder. So this was, it used to be called, I don't know,

dysmorphophobia, I think was the old clinical term, but was never in the previous

diagnostic manuals.

So essentially what body dysmorphia is, it's a preoccupation with someone's one

or more perceived defects or flaws in their physical appearance that really are not observable to others.

It's really to internalize almost distorted view of a sense of self.

During the course of the disorder, individuals usually perform repetitive behaviors like constantly checking in the

mirror, constantly grooming their hair, skin picking, seeking reassurance, you know, grabbing maybe

their love handles and checking themselves in the mirror, comparing their appearance to

others of their same age or gender or or or population and it really causes a

lot of clinical distress and the vast majority of individuals with body dysmorphic disorder are

higher prevalence rate in females.

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