Sometimes people with BDD don’t directly question others because they’re afraid people will think they’re vain or that their question is strange. So instead of directly asking, they bring up the topic in a more indirect way. A man concerned with his body build explained, “I wanted to ask other people how I looked, but [...]

The only systematic research I know of on early family experiences of people with BDD comes from the Parental Bonding Instrument. This scale is a validated and widely used self-report measure of a person’s perceptions of parental care and overprotection before the age of 16. I found that average scores of 40 consecutive people with [...]

Бессонница мо­жет быть вызвана— чрезмерной умственной нагрузкой, нерационально построенным режи­мом труда и отдыха, какими-либо волнениями, пережи­ваниями, когда нервная система находится в состоянии перевозбуждения. Огромное значение сна для организма невозможно пе­реоценить. Сон справедливо называют источником здо­ровья и бодрости. Наукой установлено, что взрослому человеку необходимо спать 7 ч в сутки, а людям напря­женного умственного труда — не [...]

At different times we all experience nervous tension of some degree, and we are all familiar with the more obvious signs of anxiety. However, there is a multitude of ways in which anxiety may manifest itself, and some of these are of such a nature that they often mislead both patient and doctor into the [...]