Diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder is typically based on:

Body dysmorphia is more than feeling insecure about your appearance. Most people have things about their appearance they feel insecure about or wish they could change, and it’s totally normal to have days where you’re not thrilled with what you see in the mirror….

Researchers at The University of Western Australia have discovered that a psychological illusion could be making people think they are thinner than they actually are. Because the brain combines our past and present experiences, it creates an illusion whereby we appear thinner than we actually are.”…

1. A psychological evaluation that assesses risk factors and thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to negative self-image.
2. Personal, social, family and medical history.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) causes people to believe that parts of their body look ugly. People with BDD spend hours focused on what they think is wrong with their looks. Many times a day, they do things to check, fix, cover up, or ask others about their looks. They focus on flaws that seem minor to others.

The bottom line is… while mirror can indeed make you appear fatter/thinner, this requires bent mirror on “mirror hall” level. A more likely culprit is lighting conditions and selection of your clothes. That’s if you’re looking into the mirror yourself.

Because of the proximity of your face to the camera, the lens can distort certain features, making them look larger than they are in real life. Pictures also only provide a 2-D version of ourselves. For example, just changing the focal length of a camera can even change the width of your head….

Things look very different to us in a picture than they do in person. This is mostly due to our ability to perceived depth. Most of the tricks our brains use to perceive depth are removed when looking at a photo. This makes us appear fatter because we cannot completely discern the curved edges of the body.

Distorted Reflections Those low-vibrating frequencies distort the projection you see. When you look into a low-vibrating mirror, you are not seeing your true self and the true beauty you emanate. You are seeing every single negative attribute anyone else has ever thought of themselves in your own reflection….

While approximately 2-3 feet away in front of the mirror with legs close together, look at your legs without bending at the waist. Bending at the waist can make the cellulite appear worse; this is referred to as functional cellulite.

Ha, yes. Don’t worry, that’s almost common knowledge – the sharpness and some light effects on the phone front camera can make acne scars look grainier or something if you hold it close, it will even exaggerate any lines or shades. Holding it at an arms length will reduce this “exaggerated crappiness” (TM).

“To make you look thin, your image needs to be compressed horizontally or extended vertically.” Over time most mirrors bend from top to bottom and there can be a slight curvature at the edge. “Your home mirror can do this due to its own weight,” Ken explained….

Due to the curvature of a car window, your reflection is effectively ‘squished’ making you look more defined and muscled that you actually are.

The window is concave….or convex can’t remember. Anyways it’s kind of like one of those mirrors in a funhouse that distorts your image making you look a little bigger. Anyways it’s kind of like one of those mirrors in a funhouse that distorts your image making you look a little bigger.

Another physics teacher, Dr. Ken Mellendorf of Illinois, explains it like this: “A completely flat mirror will show an image behind it of exactly the same shape and size as the actual object. Slight curvature along only one axis can make a person look fat or skinny….

From around the age of 25 the first signs of aging start to become apparent on the surface of the skin. Fine lines appear first and wrinkles, a loss of volume and a loss of elasticity become noticeable over time. Our skin ages for a variety of different reasons.

It depends. Using braces or Invisalign to adjust the alignment of your teeth means that the soft tissues laying over them — like your cheeks and lips — will conform to the new alignment of your bite. With braces, the change to your face shape is a gradual one.

And you might eat less overall. Because of these changes to eating, many denture wearers may experience weight gain, weight loss, and, sometimes, malnutrition. But you can still have a healthy diet with dentures….

Orthodontic treatment takes place in stages. The first stage is to align your teeth. If you do not, you may actually notice changes in the alignment of your teeth that temporarily make them look worse. This is completely normal and necessary since all of the teeth cannot straighten at once….

The reason bad breath is more common with braces is that the hardware of braces makes it easier for tiny particles of food to get trapped underneath the brackets and wires. These foods are broken down by bacteria, and a by-product of that process is an unpleasant smell: halitosis, or bad breath….