http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11089
Anybody here have muscle dysmorphia?
[quote]Brutus35 wrote:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11089
Anybody here have muscle dysmorphia? [/quote]
According to many of these new age psychologists, any guy in the gym several days a week who tries to get bigger consistently has it. Unless you are 240+lbs yet think you are extremely skinny, that term is severely overused.
Well, at least they have a solution for it…just feed them anti-depressants.
[quote]Brutus35 wrote:
Well, at least they have a solution for it…just feed them anti-depressants.[/quote]
Yes. With the majority of the population overweight and already on medication for depression and psychosis, clearly the guys in the weight room trying to reach a goal are the ones with the problem. I don’t know whether to blame these doctors… or baseball.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Brutus35 wrote:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11089
Anybody here have muscle dysmorphia?
According to many of these new age psychologists, any guy in the gym several days a week who tries to get bigger consistently has it. Unless you are 240+lbs yet think you are extremely skinny, that term is severely overused.[/quote]
I’m 6’1", 242-246 lbs and when I look in the mirror all i see is long arms and legs. the same skinny kid who started reading muscle magazines at nine years old (wouldn’t pick one of those pieces of shit up now…Powerlifting USA baby!) i seriously don’t see myself as others do.
in one way, it’s excellent motivation to keep hitting it (the gym, not ass…not ass per se…pussy…actually you should keep hitting that hard too), but i definitely have a distorted sense of my physical self.
[quote]GenSurg69 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Brutus35 wrote:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11089
Anybody here have muscle dysmorphia?
According to many of these new age psychologists, any guy in the gym several days a week who tries to get bigger consistently has it. Unless you are 240+lbs yet think you are extremely skinny, that term is severely overused.
I’m 6’1", 242-246 lbs and when I look in the mirror all i see is long arms and legs. the same skinny kid who started reading muscle magazines at nine years old (wouldn’t pick one of those pieces of shit up now…Powerlifting USA baby!) i seriously don’t see myself as others do.
in one way, it’s excellent motivation to keep hitting it (the gym, not ass…not ass per se…pussy…actually you should keep hitting that hard too), but i definitely have a distorted sense of my physical self.
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I think the extent of that distortion is the issue. I doubt any of us sees ourselves as others do. I don’t walk around all day thinking of myself the way some people seem to see me as. However, if you truly don’t see any of the progress you’ve made, that may be an issue.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Brutus35 wrote:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11089
Anybody here have muscle dysmorphia?
According to many of these new age psychologists, any guy in the gym several days a week who tries to get bigger consistently has it. Unless you are 240+lbs yet think you are extremely skinny, that term is severely overused.[/quote]
And when you’re 175-lbs yet think you’re a big cause you can see your abs?
[quote]elpatchoulero wrote:
And when you’re 175-lbs yet think you’re a big cause you can see your abs?
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That’s called bitchitis.
Is that a tub of Grow! in the second picture?
“And those red flags can lead to dangers like muscle tears, bone splitting, arthritis and even steroid use.”
ohmygosh
[quote]Schutzengel wrote:
Is that a tub of Grow! in the second picture?[/quote]
I actually downloaded the picture, and blew it up, but it was too distorted to know for sure, but I think it was.
Muscle dysmorphia exists. As does anorexia, ADD, and internet addiction. But all of these problems are blown way out of proportion.
If you are on a diet, you must be anorexic. If you lift weights, you must have muscle dysmorphia. If a child wants to do something other then sit down and shut up, he must have ADD.
It is only a problem if it interferes with your life, not because it is part of your life. There must be a way to differentiate between a problem, and a hobby.
Kind of like all the warning signs your teenage kid is using drugs are the same as the warning signs of being a teen in the first place.
I saw a report on a true dysmorphic. This guy had to lift weights the second he lost his pump. He had completely destroyed the muscles in his biceps because of excessive lifting, had to have surgery, and still lifted constantly. This guy lost his job because of this.
If a person doesn’t know he has this kind of problem until somebody tells him he does, then how can it be a real problem?
[quote]The Mage wrote:
Muscle dysmorphia exists. As does anorexia, ADD, and internet addiction.[/quote]
i thought the last one was actually internet porn addiction, a widespread “problem”
[quote]brads1111 wrote:
I’m 6’1", 242-246 lbs and when I look in the mirror all i see is long arms and legs. the same skinny kid who started reading muscle magazines at nine years old (wouldn’t pick one of those pieces of shit up now…Powerlifting USA baby!) i seriously don’t see myself as others do.
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i agree with you, i dont have this dysmorphia, but i dont feel that much bigger at 200lbs than i did at 135
when i run into people that i havent seen in years, i feel like they have shrunk moreso than myself getting bigger
i really see how this could become a serious problem for certain individuals
[quote]Schutzengel wrote:
Is that a tub of Grow! in the second picture?[/quote]
It looks exactly like a bottle of Grow! does, even with its tall white bottle and black lid!
The question is though: which member was a traitor and went running to the psychologists about how Biotest ruined their life!
The “and EVEN steroid use” part made me laugh. The question I have is - have you actually heard of someone getting bone splitting??
i guess if women wear makeup, they have face dysmorphia… or if I buy a nice shirt, I have shirt dysmorphia.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I think the extent of that distortion is the issue.[quote]
Exactly. In the same way that your girlfriend feeling like she needs to lose a couple pounds even when everyone’s telling her how great she looks doesn’t necessarily make her anorexic, a guy who’s already big wanting to get bigger doesn’t mean he has muscle dysmorphia.
However, a guy who’s jacked out of his mind and wears sweatshirts to the beach because he’s afraid everyone will laugh at how “small” he is (Steve Michalik, etc.) definitely has a problem. Likewise the guy who misses the birth of his kid to work out.
I doubt many of the guys on this board suffer from muscle dysmorphia, but some might and I think it’s important for the veterans here not to let this site become a testosterone-based equivalent of those bulimia-enabler sites by denying (as some of the posters have) that muscle dysmorphia exists or claiming it’s simply a construction of our fat, lazy modern world.
While that article was certainly silly and seemed to be trying to marginalize any guy who lifts weights, there could be guys logging on here looking for reassurance that their problem is not really their problem but everyone else’s.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
GenSurg69 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Brutus35 wrote:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11089
Anybody here have muscle dysmorphia?
According to many of these new age psychologists, any guy in the gym several days a week who tries to get bigger consistently has it. Unless you are 240+lbs yet think you are extremely skinny, that term is severely overused.
I’m 6’1", 242-246 lbs and when I look in the mirror all i see is long arms and legs. the same skinny kid who started reading muscle magazines at nine years old (wouldn’t pick one of those pieces of shit up now…Powerlifting USA baby!) i seriously don’t see myself as others do.
in one way, it’s excellent motivation to keep hitting it (the gym, not ass…not ass per se…pussy…actually you should keep hitting that hard too), but i definitely have a distorted sense of my physical self.
I think the extent of that distortion is the issue. I doubt any of us sees ourselves as others do. I don’t walk around all day thinking of myself the way some people seem to see me as. However, if you truly don’t see any of the progress you’ve made, that may be an issue.[/quote]
I think that “extent” is the right way to put it.
If you were skinny at one point in your life like me (150lbs at 6’) then you are always going to have some issues even though I am 215-220 at 6’ now.
When people say I am getting bigger I just don’t see it, even though the scale and my clothes say I am.
I don’t get their sample case. He’s trained at midnight and when he was sick. He’s never truly satisfied. Sounds like the mark of someone who’s serious about training.
It seems like they could have gotten a more clear cut case, like that guy who missed his kids birth.
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
I don’t get their sample case. He’s trained at midnight and when he was sick. He’s never truly satisfied. Sounds like the mark of someone who’s serious about training.
It seems like they could have gotten a more clear cut case, like that guy who missed his kids birth.[/quote]
I think that’s the point. The intention wasn’t to present dysmorphia as “extreme” but as if it relates to nearly everyone in the gym. What I don’t get is the admission that obesity is on the rise…and then the attempt to tear down those who are doing something about it and are very serious.