(Time) Is Too Much Tanning a Mental Illness?
By Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin Feb. 20, 2014
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder are more likely to be dependent on tanning
You know the type. They have dark brown skin in the middle of February and take constant trips to the tanning salon. It’s the tanning addict.
We may joke about Snooki’s bad habits, but new research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology suggests that people who tan excessively also experience some mental health symptoms that should be taken seriously, like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and body dysmorphic disorders (BDD).
