Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

[Jade]

I notice a direct correlation between my mirror-self and the way I feel on the inside. If I'm feeling good, my reflection catches me in a pleasing way. If I'm feeling not-so-good, it's the opposite.

Everything is mutable, even the proportions upon our face and how we see them. Just because your reflection has a bulbous nose does not mean that everyone else views you with a bulbous nose. Letting go of our personal perceptions of ourselves is important, because we need to be that which others need to see - even if it is that one with the "strange looking" face.

I promise, most people are too concerned with their own tiny inadequacies in appearance to ever notice each other's tiny flaws/fixations. Do you remember the last person you met who had an obscene pimple on their face? I certainly don't! Humans are totally weird looking, all of us, but with digitalization we've been brought into the "uncanny valley" where we have unrealistic expectations for how humans should look. Nobody's skin is actually all one shade (like we see on TV with make up), we all have scars and blemishes. On one level, we're all pretty gross, wrinkly, graying, and stinky. On another level we're just varying expressions of a species.