Body dysmorphia is the experience of perceiving your body — or a part of it — as fundamentally wrong in a way that doesn't match external reality. It's not vanity. It's a perceptual distortion that generates real suffering. The person you see in the mirror is not the person others see. The gap between those two versions is where you live.

Anonymous thoughts about body dysmorphia posted here are from people living in that gap — the honest account of a perception that can't be reasoned with.