Feeling so lonely.

[pulisa]

I think categorically establishing that BDD is the underlying issue could well be a significant breakthrough for you, KeeKee. It would be worth waiting to see the appropriate specialist professional as well because you don't want to have any more "one size fits all" therapy again.

[MyNameIsTerry]

Then it sounds like they are trying to treat symptoms. In Exposure Therapy, this is seen as a treatment failure because it doesn't treat the root, so even success treating the associated issues leaves the foundation in place for new ones to develop our others to come back. For therapists to be missing what is obvious to us is bizarre but I've seen it before on here and it makes me wonder whether it's about time scale?

When I had my CBT it didn't matter whether it achieved anything, once completed that was "your lot".

Veale is one of the big names. If I'm getting the right person, he worked with Salkovskis at The Maudsley, is a patron of various OCD charities, etc.