Tom Grennan says therapy helps with his body dysmorphia

Singer Tom Grennan said that having therapy helps him in problems around the body Dysmorphia and calls him “his greatest critic”.

Are you talking about you? – The artist’s BBC Podcast His best friend publisher Roman Kemp – Grennan talked about how he affected him.

“Absolutely have body dysmorfi,” he said. “I always think I’m always bigger than me. Or I always squeeze my belly. This is not a healthy mentality and I accept it completely.”

He said that eating patterns and gym training habits may have a great impact on mental health. “Sometimes I wouldn’t have training to stay in the form.”

“There would be a click with food, and then, ‘I have to train now to make sure that these calories or these foods are not put on me – this is an unhealthy way of being.”

A small part of the love singer continued by referring to how he saw himself and his own body: “I’m married, I’m in my mirror, ‘I’m fat’ and ‘Are you okay? You’re not’.”

He said he was “afraid to go back to the unhealthy lifestyle. “I think I should always stay at this point.”

Singer from Bedford spoke before In the same podcast, when he was young, he changed the life of physically attacked a night and sent him mentally “spiral”.

In the last episode, the 30 -year -old boy explained that it was a “good place with him” in relation to body Dismporhia, and after he made the therapy he found, he helped you “love yourself more”.

He added that the feelings of guilt are often followed to eat. For example, when a biscuit turns into a half package, “I will be fat. I will be very appropriate.” He said he could stay thinking.

Accordingly NHS websiteBody dysmorphics – or body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) – “A person is a mental health condition in which a person spends a lot of time in his appearance and spends a lot of time. These defects are often not noticed for others.”

It affects both men and women of all ages, but is most common in young and young adults.

“Having the BDD doesn’t mean you’re in vain or obsessed,” he continues. “It can be very sad and may have a great impact on your life.”

Symptoms may involve a lot of worries about a particular area of your body and spend a lot of time by comparing your appearance to other people with other people, and to look at yourself too much or completely avoid mirrors.

People with body dysmorfis also make a lot of effort to hide flaws with clothes and makeup or choose their skin.

TV and radio presenter Kemp shared some of his experiences around Grennan around the pressure of body image and show in the show business.

“It will upset me for the rest of the day because I can’t look at myself.”

“I will judge everything and it will not be about what I do in reality, it will be about how I look. And I don’t want to live like that.”

The old model remembered that a young woman at a fashion show in Milan had witnessed an extreme example of such pressures. “We were rehearsal and fainted on the stage,” he remembered.

“We tried to give it to your dinner, because he needs to eat, but [she was] He rejected it directly, “he added.

“I saw this regularly.”

Kemp also told him that someone in a pub had recently told him that he had “much more fat on TV”.

He said: “I fluctuate very much, but sometimes you will work more like everyone else.”

Grennan continued to explain how he chanted BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, Heartbreak, hard life lessons and some advice from his mother to his new album, I went everywhere, took me to the place I didn’t want.

“I was disappeared and I was young, and sometimes I was stupid, and my mother could see something right,” the singer said the singer, the number one album.

“And many people could see it, but I am very [like]’No, I have to be full of him, and I don’t do everything I can to be a big star’ or whatever. “

“But in fact none of this is important. Currently, my inner peace is my mantram.

“When you have a mood, everything sits in place and you can see your way out of everything.”

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