what one man calls obsessed!! i call dedicated, where they see dysmorphia i see a person who is not satisfied with being like every one else!!!
who sees in their minds eye what they can achieve, and do everything in their power to attain this
so i want to make myself the best i can possibly be, we forge our bodies in the fire of our will,
will i ever be satisfied with how i look ? no? if its dismorphia bring it on and i use it as a tool to excel
i wonder if Einstein had been satisfied with his lot ,no , did he have science dismorphia , f****g Twats
make me dis pare sometimes , people see someone different and they have got to fit them in to a box that makes them sleep easy at night, justifies their lack of drive and will power,
“Our obsession with looking right is far more dominant than the value we place on intellect and that is severely affecting the way many of us feel about ourselves, as we have shown,” said David Castle, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Melbourne."
You are essentially “born” with you intellect, whereas you can do something to change the way you look. Its not like you can go to the library and become smart. You can become knowledgeable in certain areas by reading books, but the gap between different peoples’ intelligence is far greater than the variations of individuals capacity to build their body.
The person who wrote that doesn’t know what body dysmorphia is. It is not looking in the mirror and wishing something was bigger or smaller.
Body dysmorphia is when you look into the mirror and what you see is a gross misrepresentation of reality. An example would be a 85 pound anorexic girl looking into the mirror and seeing a 200 pound woman. She mistakenly believes that she is fat and that’s what she sees in the mirror.
To apply it to bodybuilders is extremely disrespectful to both bodybuilders and the people who actually suffer from this disorder. Shame on them.
“He released the data this week in a university lecture entitled “the relentless pursuit of a perfect body appearance”.”
Ironic, huh?
By the way, they said they treat people with BDD with therapy and anti depressants. I am totally cool with that if they infact suffer from it.
But if, for example some really fat or skinny guy is so unhappy with his appearance the rest of his life suffers and they treat him, that is just enabling him continue to harm himself. Of course I don’t know anything about who gets this treatment, and obviously people who really have it should get any required treatment.
On another note, wouldn’t it be great if you always thought you were a big, fat, hairy ugly slob and went to a doctor. Then after taking some pills for a week, BAM! You’re huge, ripped and apparently have a great face.
I don’t think being obsessed with adding muscle is a bad thing; There are always extreme cases, but all in all, adding muscle is a healthy hobby that improves our quality of life…
being obsessed with losing weight on the other hand, is all too often taken to the extreme…it is annorexia that we should be focusing on, not “bigorexia”… but of course the media will always blow things out of proportion…
Bottom line, adding muscle and losing weight can be healthy if practiced safely and in moderation…when taken to the extremes either one can be dangerous…but labeling a bodybuilder as having a psychological disorder is completely ridiculous…
[quote]youngblood52 wrote:
I don’t think being obsessed with adding muscle is a bad thing; There are always extreme cases, but all in all, adding muscle is a healthy hobby that improves our quality of life…
being obsessed with losing weight on the other hand, is all too often taken to the extreme…it is annorexia that we should be focusing on, not “bigorexia”… but of course the media will always blow things out of proportion…
Bottom line, adding muscle and losing weight can be healthy if practiced safely and in moderation…when taken to the extremes either one can be dangerous…but labeling a bodybuilder as having a psychological disorder is completely ridiculous…[/quote]
I see saturday night CNN special coming up about this. Just to rub it in. “Bigorexia: affecting gym goers everywhere.”
I’m too pretty anyway, so a little ugly on my face is welcomed. All kidding aside though, everyone needs an obsession, a driving goal and hobby in their lives in order to give them purpose and help define who they are. Ours is one that develops both physical and mental strength as well as health.
No sense in attempting to paint a negative picture with having an obsession of working out. The exception in my eyes however, is when a person becomes so insecure and obsessed with themselves that they don’t ever socialize and become depressed and isolated, purely by the feeling that they’re not up to par with where they feel their body should be.