Julia Métraux shares how she developed body dysmorphic disorder due to autoimmune disorder, where she couldn't recognise herself one day.

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The stress of living with an autoimmune disorder or mental illness is often a vicious cycle. Julia shares how she developed body dysmorphic disorder, when she couldn't recognise herself one day.

This article appeared on welldoing.orghttps://welldoing.org/article/mirror-images-how-body-dysmorphia-distorts-reality Welldoing is a great source of articles, advice, and also a directory of counsellors and therapist. Alongside a search function, where you can specify your therapy requirements, they also offer a personalised matching service if you are not sure where to start. Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition characterised by an excessive preoccupation with perceived

Background: Background: People with past suicidal thoughts and behavior (STB) are often excluded from #Digital #MentalHealth intervention (DMHI) treatment trials. This may perpetuate barriers to care and reduce treatment generalizability, especially in populations with elevated rates of STB, like body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT, N = 80) of a smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for BDD that allowed for most forms of past STB except for past-month active suicidal ideation. Objective: Objective: This study had two objectives: to (1) characterize the sample’s lifetime prevalence of STB, and (2) estimate and predict STB incidence during the trial. Methods: Methods: We completed secondary analyses on data from an RCT of smartphone-delivered CBT for BDD. The primary outcomes consisted of STB severity and suicide attempt assessed at baseline with the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and weekly during the trial via one item from the Quick Inventory of #depressive Symptomatology—Self Report (QIDS-SR item #12; 1,043 observations). We computed descriptive statistics (M, %) and ran a series of bi- and multivariate linear regressions predicting STB incidence during the three-month trial. Results: Results: At baseline, 40% of participants reported lifetime history of active suicidal thoughts and 10% reported lifetime suicide attempts. During the three-month trial, 42.5% reporting thinking about death- and/or suicide via weekly assessment. No participants reported frequent/acute suicidal thoughts, plans, or attempts. Lifetime suicide attempt (OR = 11.0, p < .01) and lifetime severity of suicidal thoughts (OR = 1.76, p < .01) were significant bivariate predictors of death-/suicide-related thought incidence reported during the trial. Multivariate models including STB risk factor covariates (e.g., age, sexual orientation) modestly improved prediction of death-/suicide-related thoughts (e.g., PPV = .91, NPV = .75, AUC =.83). Conclusions: Conclusions: Although some participants may think about death and/or suicide during a DMHI trial, it may be safe and feasible to include participants with most forms of past STB. Among other procedures, researchers should carefully select eligibility criteria, use frequent, ongoing, low-burden, and valid monitoring procedures, and implement risk mitigation protocols tailored to the presenting problem. Clinical Trial: Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04034693; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04034693

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