Word: dysmorphia
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What's wrong with him? Paranoia. Hypochondria. Body dysmorphia. Egomania. He's anorexic. Also a terrible overeater. He's a recovering alcoholic and an insomniac, but he made up for that by becoming a very serious drug addict. He's agoraphobic and argyle-phobic, which means he's afraid of argyle socks...
...Pope said. “But if it gets to the point where you lose your girlfriend or your job because you spend 45 minutes a day examining [your] body and become distressed because it’s not muscular enough, then you’re getting into muscle dysmorphia...
Pope estimated that the number of men in America who have muscle dysmorphia is in the hundred thousands, although he said that such number is a “crude estimate” since most people are extremely secretive about the disorder. Similarly, he said that three to six percent of all American teenagers have tried anabolic steroids at least once...
...that 36% of third-grade boys had tried to lose weight. In the past 10 years, more than a million males have been found to have eating disorders. In addition to suffering from anorexia and bulimia at increasing rates, boys are falling victim to a newly named disorder: muscle dysmorphia (also called bigorexia)--the conviction that one is too small. This syndrome is marked by an obsession with the size and shape of your body, constant working out and weight lifting (even if you aren't involved in sports) and the use of supplements to "bulk up." Parents might tell...
...three shirts, ones that made him look big. He still felt small. "I would sit in class at college with a coat on," he says. You may have heard this condition called bigorexia--thinking your muscles are puny when they aren't. Pope and his colleagues call it muscle dysmorphia and estimate that hundreds of thousands of men suffer from...
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