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For the last month now, lack of sleep, worry, anxiety, stress all caused by the fact that one of my forearms is bigger than the other, well not bigger but the shape is different so it looks bigger!...

...okay I know all the jokes haha. I use weights in the gym and a few years a go suffered an injury to my elbow but I continued to train without fixing the injury properly which caused muscles in my fore arm to take the weight in stead of my now under developed tricep/bicep, the damn thing kicks in and takes over all the time now (the forearm) as my muscles in the upper arm are so underdeveloped, I don't seem to be having much luck getting them any bigger and I am trying to train my other forearm to be the same size but because of the way the muscles have been worked on the fore arm of the injured arm, i can not get my good forearm to get into the same shape no matter how hard I work it, there does not seem to be an exercise to shape the forearm other than curls, so I can bulk the good forearm up but the bad side-fore arm is in a pertruding shape that I can not get the other forearm to go.. I am so worried that this will get worse yet i still try and train on light weights these days to keep what I have got in size, but daily this is ruining me.

I wil ltry to explain what I see in the mirror when my sleeves are rolled up I see the fore arms being the same sizee but the injured side on the side of the forearm facing my hip is more rounder where as the good side despite working it harder, is still in a more straight line and thats how it looks slimmer compared to the other side.

Anyway, iahd to pupt all this into writing for someone to read as to tell anyone this in real life, wel you know what people are like when they do not understand or don't really care and I can't blame them!

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Hi yuggle,

It's true there are unfortunately people out there who down to ignorance won't understand, but hopefully a good doctor wouldn't be one of them, I would urge you to have a word with your GP for their opinion.

No one here can diagnose BDD, but if your concerns over your forearm are making you lose sleep and causing you to feel anxious that's a strong pointer towards the condition affecting you and there is help out there in the form of CBT to help you through this.

It sounds as though you're at the beginning of your journey towards tackling this, I'd recommend gaining a good understanding of how the condition works - for some BDD sufferers their problems centre around a perceived physical defect that isn't there or one that maybe present but being exaggerated by the condition, but the important thing to remember is the problem isn't the 'defect' the problem's the BDD.

I hope that may help a bit, but please don't be afraid of accessing support from your GP - there are a few dinosaurs out there, but on the whole they're much more up to speed with the various manifestations of mental health issues than they were.

I take my hat off to you for having the wherewithal to figure out there's a problem that needs to be tackled, that's not always easy to see with BDD.

Hal :original:

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Hi Yuggle.Did you ever go to see a doctor about this and did he diagnose BDD.It certainly sounds to have the characteristics of it as you worry so much about one aspect that might be perceived as not too important by a lot of people.As you probably realize the problem is not with your arm but with the way that you react to how your arm appears to you.I would be interested tyo know how you are getting on with it

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