Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

[Billy]

One of my core beliefs, which I have been carrying around for a long time now, is "what I look like, is the determining factor in how worthy and deserving of love I am'.  This belief is tangled up with others of a similar nature and they feed off of each other making it difficult to narrow things down, which results for me in a world of confusion.  One of my real weaknesses is that I find it hard to really sit down with myself and empty the contents of my mind, so that I can really take a good look at the kinds of thoughts and beliefs I am looping through on a regular basis.  It is something I strive to get better at.  Ra's exercise can be quite confusing at times, as finding opposites is not as simple as it sounds upon first hearing.  It can be quite tricky and require some mental sophistication.  I might actually commit to creating a list of such thoughts and their opposites in this very thread.  It might prove helpful to others who struggle with the same stuff.