The continuous desire for having plastic surgeries and especially in the nose, can now (according to studies) be a sign for mental illness called dysmorphic disorder (BDD), this disease is keeping the mind busy in an unnatural way in an unmentioned or imagined defects in the appearance, the people who have BDD tend usually to have plastic surgeries and even if the surgery came up with good results and is considered successful by the doctor, this person can’t be happy or relief with the results.
A new study say that there is a large number of people who have body dysmorphic disorder relation, as one person out three who have nose surgery have this disease according to the study, this number shows an increase through years as some earlier studies showed that 10% of people who have the plastic surgery suffer from the condition.
In this issue David B. Sarwer, associate professor of psychology at the Center for Human Appearance at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania said that it’s normal for people to have dissatisfaction about their look, but there has to be a limit in which this the person can go to see a plastic surgeon, this limit should rise occur when the dissatisfaction affect the daily activities and in the way of dealing with people, sometimes this feeling in certain people can highly affect their social relationships, even sometimes they will have problems in having a job or maintaining one for considerably long time.
And he also said that it’s normal to wake up in the morning and see something that would bother us in the mirror and wish it to look different, but for BDD people this thinking will never go away from their minds, this will make it hard to focus in the regular day life issues including family and work issues, as they think all the time about their nose, regularly checking the mirror and don’t usually feel good when people check their profile.
This report was published after implementing tests among 266 patients who were evaluated for 16 month by plastic surgeons in Belgium, as they asked to give their opinion about rhinoplasty procedure, and also to talk about the symptoms they suffer from about body dysmorphic disorder the results showed that only 2% want to undergo the surgery for medical reasons and showed symptoms of the disorder, on the other hand people who said they want to have the surgery for cosmetic reasons only, 43% showed signs of the disorder.