Mirror mirror: Facing up to body dysmorphic disorder in children
Body dysmorphic disorder is on the rise among children, many of whom are influenced by the edited pictures they see on social media, writes .
THEY hate the shape of their face. They’re ashamed and embarrassed about being ‘ugly’. They hate their stomach or their legs. These are the kinds of concerns increasingly being shared by teens in Ireland with counselling psychologists. More worrying again are reports that this preoccupation with perceived flaws didn’t just kick in as they hit their teens. Fears that their physical selves didn’t measure up had been there since they were nine, 10 or 11 years old.
