Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with?

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or some form of OCD like tendencies. Definitely not normal

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No it doesn’t

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well when you put it that convincingly, assuming women’s vaginal odor is supernaturally pronounced and something everyone you meet is unrealistically preoccupied with and disgusted by – a belief plausibly tied into childhood trauma – doesn’t sound like body dysmorphia at all.

    I’ll put up the DSM-V’s criteria here which are similar to the ICD-11’s.

    I don’t see anything else better describing this ©*, and it evidently causes significant distress (B), because a) they’re saying it does, and b) this mindset sounds highly distressing.

    (A) is slightly complicated by the fact that, in this paranoia, she thinks she’s the exception among women. It’s still a deeply negative, unhealthy preoccupation with a body part that she thinks she’s constantly judged by others for but in reality probably never has been; I think any psychologist would recognize this as a minor variation on typical BDD.

    * There might be comorbid gender dysmorphia, but that doesn’t fully explain this specific paranoia.

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