Can substituting habits or rituals help in BDD?
Whenever you take away a behavior there’s got to be something to replace it otherwise that same behavior is just going to keep coming back. So what we help people do is, for example, instead of avoiding going out we help them replace that with some activity they can do that’s healthy, that makes them feel good about themselves, and an example might be instead of spending two hours a day on the internet researching cosmetic procedures, if you spend – first of all starting with spending less time and replace that with, say, going for a coffee with a friend or going to the gym.
