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He also met with Westbrook and Pegggy the next day and assured them the BDD office would check into his discharge status. Whereas BDD is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) as a preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance causing clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, not being the result of another mental disorder, Pope et al. Like anorexia nervosa, the eating disorder that causes people to see themselves as fat even as they starve their bodies into dangerous thinness, BDD involves a distortion in body image. |
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