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Eating and Body Image Disorders - Muscle Dysmorphia
By Christina | November 27, 2008
This next series of blog posts are written with the intention of understanding better the different eating and/ or body image disorders that are out there. As a Fitness Trainer I have seen and heard all sorts of complaints, diagnosis, heard people speak about other members and had people speak about me and honestly, most of it is incorrect and based on nothing more than someone’s opinion.
Bigorexia, or muscle dysmorphia, is becomingly increasingly common amongst adolescent boys who want bigger muscles. They actually see themselves as too scrawny and thin and their muscles inadequate no matter how much they train. It becomes a disorder not when the desire for larger muscles is paramount in their minds but when they start to miss work, train through severe injury or inject themselves for the appearance of bigger bodies.
Bigorexia is the opposite of anorexia (tomorrow’s blog post) in that the body is never big enough and the body image is distorted to the degree that a person suffering from this will not show their body. Bigorexics will rarely eat out at a restaurant or someones house because they must keep such tight control over their nutritional intake.
Treatment of reverse anorexia as its called includes psychological counseling to help see the body as it is instead of through the distortion.
Topics: Exercise, Nutrition, Personal Training |
