Body image distortion
Type: Symptom
Definition
A profound misperception of one's own physical appearance, often seeing oneself as overweight despite being emaciated.
Clinical Details
This perceptual abnormality is central to the pathology of anorexia, driven by dysfunctions in the parietal cortex's processing of somatosensory data. No amount of weight loss corrects this distortion, fueling the continuous drive for further restriction.