Always a dissatisfied client: how to recognize a person with dysmorphophobia
An extended questionnaire for diagnosing dysmorphophobia (BDD) in a cosmetology client
Dysmorphophobia, or dysmorphophobic disorder is a mental disorder in which a person is overly concerned and preoccupied with a minor flaw in their appearance, some feature of their body. And some people have no aesthetic problems at all, they exist only in their imagination.
The sphere of cosmetology and aesthetic medicine is the "place" where the carriers of dysmorphophobia are met almost most often. Constant improvement of appearance is their obsessive goal. But no matter what they do, no matter how they "improve" themselves, they will still feel dissatisfied. And, of course, to blame for this dissatisfaction, "not getting the result" will be a cosmetologist. Therefore, the best option — to refuse the client with dysmorphophobia in the procedure. And our questionnaire will help you to understand whether the person in front of you is really a person with a mental disorder.
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