Trauma, we all have it in a time of our lives, it may affect a majority of people, it may not affect other people, who knows? Trauma can be very many things that can be a difficult experience for hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of people, one of those categories of trauma is called Body Dysmorphic Disorder also known as BDD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by obsessive concern with perceived flaws in physical appearance. It often leads to significant distress and impacts daily functioning. Individuals with BDD may engage in various compulsive behaviors to cope with their concerns. BDD can profoundly affect an individual's self-esteem and quality of life. The perceived flaws are often exaggerated or imagined, causing immense distress. Having a disorder at a really young age was probably the most difficult for me to go through especially when you feel like there's no one to understand you and what you're feeling or going through, during my middle school years, specifically my 6th grade year all the way up to my 8th grade year I struggled badly with Body Dysmorphia and it was extremely hard for me to have self-confidence of myself because I would always look at myself in the mirror and all I would see myself as was an overweight girl, all I would wear was oversized stuff or hoodies or long sleeve shirts because of how insecure I was of myself to the point where I would never wanna eat but I had never realized that me starving myself was the most regretful things ever because I had started to have an eating disorder because of how much I wouldn't eat to the point where it was hard for me to eat something at school or after school or whenever I would go out with family. all of those years of me being insecure of my body and just wearing nothing but clothes that would cover my body, I went from weighing 150 pounds to weighing 130 pounds by the end of my 8th grade year. During this quarter of learning about trauma through art, I wanted to do an art project on Body Dysmorphic Disorder in which I've learned new things about how trauma can be a variation of different categories and a new type of trauma that I previously learned about is called post traumatic stress disorder which I learned about from a podcast named "Healing The Unquiet Mind" which is a podcast where a woman named "Kay Redfield Jamison" discusses one of her books that is partly "a cultural history of the treatment and healing" of mental illness. Since I was doing a project on Body Dysmorphia which is a mental health condition I figured that finding a resource that talks about mental health and the treatment and healing of a mental illness that it would be good to represent the message behind different types of traumas and what it can look like for different people. Another resource that I used for my project was from a time called "Women and The American World" in which I learned about a native girl named Zitkala-Sa who expresses trauma by talking about what it was like going to a boarding school in Indiana and how "when they found her underneath a bed, they dragged her out, tied her to a chair, and cut off her braids as she cried out loud." Finding this resource for my project was the most interesting thing I learned because it shows that not only men have traumatic experiences in their life but women do as well and that's why I decided to use pictures and quotes of women that have also gone through tough times of struggling with their body image and how much they're eating. Through my healing process, it did take a couple of months for me to start stepping out of my comfort zone and to start wearing clothes that wouldn't cover up almost all of my body, going through a process of healing did take a lot of time for me to improve on myself and to get better with my mental and physical self but there could also be many other alternatives for healing processes such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Medication, Self-Care Practices, Education, and Lifestyle Changes.