Body dysmorphic disorders

Patients with body dysmorphic disorders deal with their real or putative body defects. They cannot control their negative thoughts about their body image (APA, 2000). Their thoughts may cause severe emotional distress. They think that no-one should see their defects therefore they often find faults with their body and the perceived defect may be a slight imperfection or non-existent. Most often they have got problems with their hair, skin, cheeks and nose (Pope et al, 1993). 22% of them left school, one third of these patients left their home and 45%-80% have thought of suicide and 24% have already tried to commit suicide (Phillips and et al, 2006a). The rate between females and males are almost the same although in young teenage girls this rate is higher than that of the boys (Phillips, 2005, Phillips and et al, 2006b, Koran and et al, 2008).