Psychological Evaluation: Body Dysmorphia and Mental Illness

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Some providers are saying that you should treat short men unless they exhibit signs of Body Dysmorphia / are mentally ill.

However, is height dysphoria not a subset of body dysmorphia?

And aren't most short men at this point-- at the point of willing to temporarily cripple themselves to get taller-- mentally ill to a degree? Being ostracized, being marginalized, having an "anti-halo effect" by being a short man (and, more importantly, being AWARE of this ostracization) certainly will lend to a tougher life and higher degrees of "mental illness".

Thoughts?

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Side note, but I also suspect that it's far harder to get enough serotonin / oxytocin (unsure of the relationship of both) as a short, straight male in modern western society.

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I mean, you're doing a round 2 now, right? So when you said you completely forgot about it, what do you mean?

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Also: chatted with Assayag about this question, about what kind of people he thinks are psychologically unfit for this procedure.

His thoughts are that there are folks who have some form of OCD about these things-- obsessing over millimeters and the most minute ratio differences. And folks who are addicted to surgery. These are the two groups of people he would not operate on.

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Quote from: Activatedxx on December 20, 2024, 06:46:55 AMI did tibias because I felt that I’d rather spend the money on this than a new car or something, but if it was not possible I was happy with my new stature. Sure, more is better, but I no longer had negativity about my height. It was just the money spent on this would make me happier than on some other material thing.

I totally understand this. After getting to normal height myself from femoral LL, my money really will just go to early retirement, travel, or tibial surgery. Or family, I suppose, if I end up with one.

Quote from: Activatedxx on December 20, 2024, 06:46:55 AMThey’ll measure themselves a dozen times a day and obsess over millimeters.. Every conversation with them is about some height related dialogue or trauma about society. You can’t have a normal conversation with them about the any other topic. You’ll understand more when you meet them, but it’s definitely a form of social tardation.theres nothing going on in that head or life except thinking bout height.
Sure height is important, but facial attractiveness, intelligence, being in shape, being successful etc are all important. These guys think if they are short of this imaginary target in their head then they failed.

I literally watched a guy have depression because he ended up being 179.25 at night after he did his femurs, and he was very upset that he was gonna go under 180 at some point through out the day. I thought he was kidding at first

What in the hell? I scoured the internet and I found a subreddit completely dedicated to height comparison (r/heightcomparison). Dude, it is an illness. People are obsessed!

I know some people here are calculating like actual height, using trigonometry to take into account their femur angles. That is bonkers.

Okay, this makes me feel much better about myself and my own psyche. Thank you!