Best Body Dysmorphia Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are rules you've gotta follow when you fuck to forget. A body's only a temple if and when you treat it like one, but a heart can still break even if you never put it together properly in the first place.”

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Author:Kris Kidd

“I knew that girls made fun of each other, but talking about someone’s body like that seemed so wrong. You can’t choose your body! I was suddenly aware that I was under-performing in ways I didn’t even know existed. From then on I always showered in my swimsuit, changed clothes in the outhouse (which defeated the purpose of showering), and worst of all, I developed the habit of swimming in a t-shirt.”

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Book:Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

Source: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

“Numerous patients with eating disorders refuse to eat with their families and friends, even insisting on eating only in private. Many of the practices that are seen as essential for creating and sustaining relatedness - the sharing of food, living together, sexual relationships, and even reproduction - are consistently negated by anorexic and other eating disordered practices.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Each internal representation of the mother has its corresponding self-representation - the first as bad, empty, and guilty and the second as passive, compliant, and good. Working together, these internal objects undermine patient’s journeys toward adulthood, which is compatible with the symptoms and behaviors of the disorder.”

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Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“The anorexic is strongly defended against her object hunger whereas the bulimic’s defenses against that hunger break down, leading to her over-consume and, in an effort to undo the eruption of that need, to vomit.”

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Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“One of our central tasks with patients with eating disorders is facilitating the capacity to postpone action in favor of reflection. We inevitably find especially early on, that this is challenging: the pull to binge, or purge, or restrict is difficult, often impossible, to resist. To understand this fact, in this chapter we begin with a discussion of Freud’s (1914) notion of the compulsion to repeat and then formulate the eating disordered patient's symptoms as repetitions against traumatic themes from childhood, never-ending (because never fully successful) attempts to magically undo the pain of the past.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Patients with eating disorders typically report little power to stop their eating disordered behaviors (i.e., reversibility), are often unaware of the thoughts and feelings they have when engaging in them (i.e., self-observation), and, by definition, their behaviors are self-defeating and fail to forward their development in constructive ways (i.e., appropriateness).”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“We all need to feel safe, that the world is predicable, that obstacles can be overcome, and conflicts resolved -in short, to maintain narcissistic equilibrium. When such conditions are met, infants can pleasurably engage with their environments. When faced with overwhelming experience, internal or external, they must find a way to restore their fragile self-esteem. Some infants, especially when faced with overwhelm that cannot be overcome, turn away from reality and toward omnipotent solution. This learned response feels dependable and, over time, takes on an addictive quality, restricting her access to other solutions and pathways to further growth.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Mourning is the vehicle of transformation through which traumatic themes can be acknowledged, disillusioned wishes for an ideal object relinquished and painful early relationships transformed into aspects of the subject’s character that are carried forward in constructive ways.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“In her article, Williams (1997) describes a class of "psychically porous” patients who suffer from eating disorders, most frequently bulimia nervosa, and suggests that they had parents who themselves suffered extensive traumas and as a result were either frightening or frightened or both in relation to the child.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Desire cannot be understood apart from the contexts, relational and cultural, that shape it. A patient with bulimia, for example, may not desire food as a substitute for mother but, rather, because that is the only available "vocabulary" through which her desire can be expressed. The analyst's task becomes not only to uncover desires that have been defended against but also to help the patient begin to want freely so that, over time, new containers of desire can emerge, both inside and outside the analytic relationship.”

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Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Kernberg (1995) observes that patients with anorexia tend toward sexual inhibition, whereas those with bulimia are more likely to enact sadomasochistic sexual interactions, especially when eating disturbances temporarily recede.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Patients with eating disorders contend with an emotional landscape marked by isolation and loneliness as well as shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not to mention a profound hopelessness about the possibilities of emotional connection. Help with these struggles will never be found in a pill or a set of therapeutic exercises, in spite of the potential usefulness of both. It is only through a meaningful emotional connection that we can help patients begin to "bear the unbearable and to say the unsayable".”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Although self-starvation as manifest in anorexia nervosa is a deadly form of self-destruction, it is also a healthy expression of the desire to be autonomous.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“In families of eating-disordered patients, the narcissistic use of the daughter by the mother is often immediately striking. Throughout the literature the degree of enmeshment or symbiosis between mother and daughter is remarked upon. Daughters are torn between the urgings of their own developmental strivings and their need to meet their mothers' narcissistic needs.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Eating disordered patients often grow up in families that place an inordinate amount of importance upon bodily appearance, including weight, and focus upon particular parts of the body: protruding tummies, thunder thighs, and tree-trunk legs. We see these same pathogenic qualities in much of the advertising that is directed toward women and girls.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“When eating disordered symptoms arise in men, Schoen (ibid.) writes, they may signal difficulty integrating dependency needs into a masculine identification. Sands (2003) notes that men are more likely to express disavowed needs and wants through projections onto others - witness the preponderance of compulsive sexual behaviors in men - whereas women are more likely to use their own bodies to contain disavowed desires.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“The capacity to think about, to reflect upon, difficult feelings is what allows us to forego expressing them in more problematic ways, such as, for patients with eating disorders, through a binge, or a purge, or food restriction.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“If there is one commonality between patients with eating disorders, perhaps it is that there is disharmony in the link between body and mind. This can manifest in various ways such as, for example, the “false bodies" described in a later chapter.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Some patients may struggle to describe and elaborate on their experience, for instance, of need, desire, or hunger. While they can speak to their feelings, often quite articulately in other realms, in these particular areas this capacity is conspicuously absent.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“Object relations theory is concerned with how the patient's early relational experiences have been intemalized as a psychological structure that continues to organize and give meaning to her experiences in the present. Are her objects "whole," reflecting both the good and bad aspects of important early relationships, or are they ''parts," representing of "all good" or "all bad" experiences of intense gratification, longing, or deprivation? The objects that populate her psyche shape the anxieties with which she struggles, the longings she feels, and the defenses she erects to manage the intensities of both. From this point of view, it is the underlying psychological structure -not just the eating disorder symptoms that manifest because of it – that are a focus of treatment. The eating disorder, in other words, is a result of dynamics that are woven through the patient’s personality.”

Women Mental Health Body Image Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Psychopathology Body Dysmorphia

Book:Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction

“It was torture to be starving and not being able to eat. All I could think about was my face and my chewing and how much food was on my fork when I brought it to my mouth. Eating in front of people was like stripping and standing there naked for everyone to judge. My mind was in a constant state of panic wondering if I looked like a pig when I was eating, or if I was chewing too loud. Or worse, what if I ate too much and everyone saw what my mom always saw: a fat sob that could do with losing a few meals? The thought always left me in cold chills.”

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Book:The Voyeur Next Door

Source: The Voyeur Next Door

“...this beast dwells within whom many confuse with vanity.”

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Book:Night Tide Musings

Source: Night Tide Musings

“What started as a longing to be loved and seen for my physical beauty digressed into the warped belief that the illness itself was what drew the attention I so craved. I towed the line between longing for perfection and longing for pity. Using my body as a signaling flag, oscillating between peacocking in times where I felt beautiful, and waving distress calls in the depths of my sickness. I never used my words, and I didn’t know how to. I used my body.”

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Book:Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder

Source: Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder

“Boys—I think you're old enough now that I can talk about—certain topics with you. You know, most men expect a woman's body to look a certain way and not all of them do look that way. So sometimes a woman has to do something that will change her appearance so that she'll be accepted by the people around her. People expect a woman's breasts to be a certain size and mine aren't that size. They're smaller. So I wear a padded brassiere—it makes it look like my breasts are the size that most women's are.”

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Book:I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative

Source: I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative

“Connie sits on the toilet, and I think about whether she noticed how much the bathwater rose when I sat down in it. It's something I'd worried about since I was a teenager, the serenity of a bath marred by my anxiety about my own volume. She is so thin, so elegantly formed. I feel certain she knows the water she'd displace wouldn't be more than an inch or two.”

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Book:The Grip of It

Source: The Grip of It

“au-delà de la crainte de la première fois, bien au-delà du risque de tomber enceinte, je fuyais mon propre corps, sa mise à nu, à jamais associée pour moi à l'ordre d'un nazi, à son regard humillant tandis qu'on nous rasait la tête et le sexe, à son verdict : la mort ou le sursis.”

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Book:L'Amour après

Source: L'Amour après