Body Dysmorphic Disorder

I've been through a phase when I tried smoking from cigarettes to pot. It's the so-called teenage angst that drives the youth into utter madness. You feel like everything's against you. You despise your parents and you find comfort from peers who dare you to do things just for the heck of being crazy. Yup, daddy's been there, done that. So more or less, I thought I'd know how to handle my teenage daughter.

If I was crazy in the 80's, my daughter's psychologically out of this world. I understand the dares and challenges that sometimes put you into jail, but my daughter's drama? She needs to be confined in an asylum. Please, I'm a loving and doting father! That's the reason I'm overreacting.

I visited a web forum once about teenage angst. It's all crappy until I heard of BDD, the Body Dysmorphic Disorder. At last something sheds light to my daughter's trashy psyche. For a time, she's been worried more of her weight than her homework. She'll shrug off a flunked test but she'll go wild when she sees her actual weight in pounds. Physically, my daughter's flawless but mentally, I think she's driven by a spooky spell.

BDD is also known as "imagined ugliness". That will figure why she's acting nuts all the time. It's okay for her to be vain so long as it doesn't affect her health. If it's part of a teenage drama or angst, I could take it. But I think it's getting worse, so I asked a psychiatrist to check on her. Teens are normally delusional, but not all things should be sensational. BDD may be a health risk.