Body dysmorphic disorder is something that is hard to describe unless experienced first hand. To the dysmorphic mind, a mirror holds great defining power, and sadly, we never see how beautiful we really are. The mirror creates a monster out of our own reflections, a monster that no one else can see aside from
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL
Mirror images used to dominate my thought life. When my struggle with body image and self-acceptance was at its worst, the mirror was my daily defining god. How I looked in the reflections I saw would dictate how the rest of my day would be, whether or not I would be my confident self, or