456 SelfWork: When You Hate Your Body... Body Dysmorphia
What is body dysmorphia?��If you've irrationally felt, "I hate the way ....... looks or is," and you're talking about your own body, then you may be struggling with body dysmorphia.
You can have a huge preoccupation with whatever defect your mind is telling you that you have ��� and can spend lots of time and money and energy to try and ���fix��� the problem. But tragically, the medicine or the surgery or the exercise doesn���t ���fix��� the irrationality ��� and so these kinds of problems can exist for years.
So today, we���re going to focus on what body dysmorphia is ��� and as always, what you can do about it.
Instead of a listener email this week, I���ve learned of the death of a wonderful man who was my guest last year on SelfWork. James Doty. He was a neurosurgeon, a professor at Stanford, who knew the Dalai Lama well as he founded the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, and they became quite good friends.��I���ll tell you a little more about him later in the episode and once again, hear his words of encouragement of how to live a meaningful life.
Vital Links:��Famous celebrities who's talked about having body dysmorphia
Mayo Clinic description of body dysmorphia
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