Letting Go of Perfect: A Gay Man's Guide to Healing from Body Dysmorphia

Body dysmorphia affects a significant number of gay men, driven by rigid beauty ideals and social expectations around masculinity. The pursuit of a 'perfect' body can quickly become all—consuming, leading to harmful patterns around food, fitness, and self—worth.

Daniel O'Shaughnessy understands this not just as a clinician but as someone who has lived it. Drawing on his experience with extreme dieting, compulsive exercise, and steroid use, he brings a rare honesty to a subject still too ofte...