Comments on: DIY Surgery on the increase

By: julie

julie — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:43:57 +0000

Those words could have been taken right out of my mouth. My husband tells me all the time that I look lovely, but it doesn’t matter how much I know he means it,it’s my opinion of myself that overrules anything he says. I don’t like the way I look(not any part of me), so then I think that my husband couldn’t possibly really like looking at me, and so I have distanced myself from him for many years.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:45:04 +0000

Actually those who have DIY surgery are probable sufferers of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. The best I can describe their day to day experience is.. extreme mental torture. The suicide rate of BDD sufferers is the highest of all mental illnesses, 45 times the average. They often become housebound, drop out of school because of the fear (most sufferers I have met are intelligent, which makes it a tragic waste) and relationships become difficult as they cannot love themselves, let alone another. I know this because, mainly, I am one of them. It ruined my life.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:56:17 +0000

OMG, DIY cosmetic surgery? Now, I’ve heard it all. First, I read about “boob jobs” where the winner is announced by a porn star, and now this. I absolutely understand the need to, as you say, “enhance and improve” one’s appearance because, although I’m personally not a surgeon, I work with a breast augmentation surgeon in Indiana, but come one people! I know it’s about the body, but please use your brains. If it’s free, you’re probably going to get what you pay for (there’s a reason it has to be given away). And have you ever tried to give yourself a haircut? Probably didn’t work out as you had hoped. This is surgery. It’s elective, but please, if you feel like your life might be improved with cosmetic surgery, save up, investigate financing options, or simply talk with a surgeon about spreading out the payments. You’ll be glad you did.