If we rely heavily on photos when remembering our past, we may create a distorted self identity based on the image we wanted to promote to others.
Brotto's postdoctoral training included a stint in Seattle at the University of Washington with patients suffering from borderline personality disorder, a disease of severe anxiety and distorted self-image and often of self-inflicted injury — like cutting — that expresses a desperate need to replace infinite despondence with finite pain.
According to the Mayo Clinic, people with BPD can have "a pattern of unstable intense relationships, distorted self-image, extreme emotions and impulsiveness". .
According to the Mayo Clinic, Borderline Personality Disorder: "includes a pattern of unstable intense relationships, distorted self-image, extreme emotions and impulsiveness".
BPD, according to the Mayo Clinic, can cause "a pattern of unstable intense relationships, distorted self-image, extreme emotions and impulsiveness," though many with the disorder can improve and lead fulfilling lives after receiving treatment.
Diagnosing certain psychic abnormalities (e.g., elation fixation, eccentricity, and mannerism) to be the effect of the patient's distorted self-image and his inadequate relation to the world, he developed a form of psychoanalysis to establish the patient's consciousness of self as a total person, uniquely existing in and communicating with the concrete world as it is.
The Hollywood obsession with replacing physically unattractive characters reveals something about our distorted self-images.
For many Palestinians, it was easier to hold on to their distorted self-image of "victims of victims" and bask in the glory of revolution rather than dirty their hands in the muddy waters of state building and take responsibility for their destiny.
I continued to struggle with my distorted self-image.
Recognizing the importance of negative self-images, several cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) programs for social phobia (for example, Clark & Wells, 1995; Clark et al., 2003; Heimberg & Becker, 2002; Rapee & Sanderson, 1998) include techniques for correcting distorted self-images.
