11. What is life like for you now that you have been able to overcome and move on from BDD?

I would love to tell you that I have completely overcome my BDD, but the truth is it will always be the BDD and me, it will never leave my side but I am now in control of it, I no longer allow it to dictate how I live my life, and if anything it makes me even more determined to do the things it tells me I can not.
I have achieved all that I intended to, The BDD may always tell me that I have no place in this world that I should be hiding in my bedroom, that my face and body is disfigured! But so what!, why should what we look like dictate the life we lead!.

I am finally able to look out of the window on a sunny day, chuck on my combats, vest, cap and walk my dog!, something that people take for granted is that freedom!.
For many years I felt trapped in a body that was holding me back from living my life, but today I have finally realised that it was not my body holding me back it was this illness, I will never be completely normal, and I will never like what I see in the mirror, but I finally like the person I have become and for me that is the greatest achievement of all!.