Body dysmorphic disorder patients who loathe appearance often get better, but it could take years
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
In the longest-term study so far to track people with body dysmorphic disorder, a severe mental illness in which sufferers obsess over nonexistent or slight defects in their physical appearance, researchers at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital found high rates of recovery, although recovery can take more than five years...