![]() What have you learned about it and how, other than medication, do you treat it?Ī: The therapist, basically the words she used, is that I need to recalibrate my brain, and that I'd been in a state of misery for so long that it had become my normal. Q: Your condition is a mental health condition called body dysmorphic disorder. My parents were very supportive and there for me, especially my dad. Once I got on that boat, I was like, this is better. The reason I got on medication was because I literally had nothing to lose. I started going to therapy, psychology, and eventually I got on medication and that helped a lot. It's another kind of rock bottom once you're contemplating death. It was like suicidal thoughts, and at that point you have nowhere to go. I returned home to Salt Lake City where my parents live and had to deal with the depression aspect. Q: When did you finally recognize that you needed help?Ī: I had really bad depression. When you think you're unacceptably unattractive, it's very distracting, and I'd trip up over that at times. I had incidences that I wouldn't want them to film me from a certain angle. Because I focused on trying to do it right, all the insecurities weren't such a problem. I took it very seriously, the job, and put a lot of effort and focus into trying to do it right. I timed it out so I wasn't looking drastically different, so I wasn't showing, during filming. This struggle has been happening at the same time. Q: Were you working on "Modern Family" in your role as Dylan at that time? Did your struggles with self-esteem interfere with your work?Ī: I've been with "Modern Family" since 2009. Over the next couple of years, I had more procedures and each procedure would cause a new problem and then I would want to fix it. I could actually feel and move the implant under my skin. I went to another guy who was a total back door plastic surgeon and he had no problem opening up my face and he did a chin implant and that looked really weird too. It looked like "Tales from the Crypt."Īnd then I went back to the guy and he said he wouldn't operate again, that it hasn't been long enough. After two weeks, I took off the facial bandage and he said it'll be back to normal but it looked insane. He also never mentioned I was going to have to wear a full mummy face-mask for several weeks afterward and have this bloated face. It made my lower cheeks look super hollow. Even though I didn't have any significant problem with my face - I was just like, "Can you make me look better?" - he suggested large cheek implants.
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