Katharine Phillips, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's Alpert School of Medicine in Providence, R.I. "We've found in our research in two different studies that about three-quarters of people with BDD seek cosmetic treatment and about two-thirds of them actually get it, and they may go to many doctors to try and get it," said Dr. They don't see that they have an internal problem," said Wilhelm. "They very often go to cosmetic surgeons or dermatologists because they are convinced there is something wrong with the way they look. People with BDD will often seek treatment not from a mental health professional but from a different type of practitioner. They also tend to ritualistically look at themselves in the mirror.
They typically obsess over more than one body part and ruminate over their perceived flaws for several hours a day. It gets in the way of social functioning, working - all areas of functioning can be affected." "This preoccupation gets in the way of having a good life.
"BDD patients are extremely distressed by these flaws that others can't see or are very minor," said Sabine Wilhelm, director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Although they don't know Hershey and didn't evaluate her, medical experts told ABC News that a person's preoccupation with what he or she sees as a flaw in physical appearance is a hallmark of body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD.
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