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Originally Posted by ChristMASS EFFECT
Statistically there probably will be.
I wish Redway was still online I'd love to ask him or her how they know about it because like you said not a lot is known about it in the general public.
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Apologies for replying late... only just seen this. Anyway, I tend to disregard media sources for portraying hyperbolic, offensive ideas about mental illness but there
is the odd good story up on that sort of thing. But I've always been quite interested in psychological matters, so have kind of done my own research about it.
Views on mental health to the general public are indeed often ill-informed and stereotypical but I find there's an increasingly available amount of awareness on it; there was a show called Bedlam a couple of weeks back, featuring one of the oldest and infamous asylums and how it's now being used to help people with serious issues. Don't think there was BDD but certainly the likes of manic depression and extreme OCD, which was a real eye-opener go me and the unfortunate stigma they still face in their everyday lives.
There was quite some focus on anxiety disorders (such as OCD), so perhaps body dysmorphic disorder fits into that?