Body Dysmorphia Artwork

I have major depression among other things, including BDD. My depression keeps me from doing art, which I desperately love, and today I've sparked an idea for an art project I would like to invite input from others who are willing to give that to me.

I realized that BDD can be hard to understand for people who don't suffer from it, and it can be so drastically different between people, even from day to day sometimes, too. I want to create art, possibly paintings or sculptures depicting my own personal examples of my dysmorphia, but it occurred to me how lovely it would be to also try to produce representations that would be relatable to more people than just myself.

Anyway, if anyone would like to describe their own experiences and what you see I would love to take that into consideration during my project.

An example I can give of my own experience would be that I can't even stand to look at my own face; it's like hearing nails on a chalkboard and I avoid my own reflection at all costs. I feel like my body looks heavy and bloated when it may or may not be, honestly the only evidence that what I see of myself is that I get constant disagreements from others commenting on my opinions of what I see, and that I look different almost everytime that I look in the mirror. Sometimes I think I have cankles, sometimes I think my arms are enormous.

I want to have a variety though, so everyone can relate who feels this way, and I want to do an over exaggerated version of some of these things to really emphasize the drastic irrationality of what I'm seeing of myself.

Submitted July 17, 2019 at 06:04PM by SgtSugarCubed https://ift.tt/2YWpv8T