[quote]pushharder wrote:
Frankly, I’m more concerned with “averagexia”. Yeah, multitudes of people shuffling through life striving to be average are a far greater threat to society than over-achievers.
When you have a vast majority of people willing to march in step you create a great opportunity for a pied piper to assume his place.[/quote]
We get to vote on another one in November.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Frankly, I’m more concerned with “averagexia”. Yeah, multitudes of people shuffling through life striving to be average are a far greater threat to society than over-achievers.
When you have a vast majority of people willing to march in step you create a great opportunity for a pied piper to assume his place.[/quote]
But the overachievers might achieve something, and as has been previously established, that’s just sick.
If the point of this thread is to complain that the view of bodybuilding as a mental illness is applied indiscriminately to anyone who strives to develop an outstanding physique, then I agree.
When I was a teenager, a psychologist told me that I had a mental disorder because I wasn’t satified with my physique even though I fell within the “normal” weight range for my height. Mental health professionals appear to believe that anything beyond outright complacency with respect to one’s physique constitutes a mental disorder.
But, that’s probably the least ridiculous notion currently accepted in field of mental health…
[quote]belligerent wrote:
There is nothing wrong with wanting bigger muscles. When the pursuit consumes your entire existence, and you measure your success in life solely in terms of you muscularity, as a small number of utterly obsessed men and women clearly do, then you are fucked up mentally. Of course, there are some people, including many mental health professionals, who believe that anything other than outright complacency with respect to one’s physique constitutes a mental disorder and that’s sheer bullshit.
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What if my physique is my meal ticket? It seems perfectly reasonable to devote much of my time/life to my job, many people do it in all different fields - why is bodybuilding different?
Dude lmfao at that skinny fucker saying he had 18" arms. The guy who said he had 16 1/2" arms is obviously the only one who measured.
[quote]Magnate wrote:
What if my physique is my meal ticket? It seems perfectly reasonable to devote much of my time/life to my job, many people do it in all different fields - why is bodybuilding different?[/quote]
If you’re a professional bodybuilder then I’d say that’s a notable exception.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Why has this thread turned into some focus on whether I want to jump into competition or not?[/quote]
Fair enough that it was a bad side track, but threads tend to do that.
I’m genuinely surprised that you’re giving this that much attention though. Morons have numbers on their side. There are probably people out there saying that whole quilting board we invaded had a quilting problem.
Someones comment on the youtube vid: “Couldn’t help but notice, the guy talking about how much guys with Bigorexia suffer is a fat fuck. Hmm…”
Satisfaction is the death of desire!!!
We live in a society where people are obsessed with the notion that something must be wrong either with themselves or everyone else.
Fortunately for some there is an understanding that life is not, nor will ever be, completely comfortable.
Tags, titles, labels,… who gives a shit. As long as I’m able, I’ll try to get bigger. And every negative arm-chair psychologist naysayer can cast their stones… and I’ll just keep lifting them. 
If that means I have bigorexia, so be it. I’ve been called much worse and I’m still here doing what I love.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Why has this thread turned into some focus on whether I want to jump into competition or not?
Fair enough that it was a bad side track, but threads tend to do that.
I’m genuinely surprised that you’re giving this that much attention though. Morons have numbers on their side. There are probably people out there saying that whole quilting board we invaded had a quilting problem.[/quote]
Why would you be surprised? Most of the comments I get (to my face) are positive, but things like this can tend to irritate you when you fit the “stereotype”. Like that video showed, there has been escalation as far as this term is concerned.
It used to ONLY describe those who were literally not functioning well in society because of their focus on self image. It was meant for those who turn down well paying jobs for more gym time or those who can’t see a movie because it cuts into meal time.
Now, they have evolved into using it for ANYONE who may have the slightest hint of muscle showing but who also wants to get bigger. There was only one guy in that video that really looked like a bodybuilder.
The rest couldn’t have had arms much over 16" yet they were ALL labeled the same…as if they had something wrong with them for working so hard to improve themselves.
Yes, I do think it reflects the desires of society and I don’t think they are done with the escalation of their diagnosis that we are all insane and that children should be saved from the big bad muscle men/women.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Morons have numbers on their side.[/quote]
Always a problem, morons.
Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level then beat you through experience.
Has anyone paid the fee to watch the entire clip?
[quote]Jetric9 wrote:
Has anyone paid the fee to watch the entire clip?
http://www.youperview.com/video/preview/901
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Pay for the video?
LOL!!!
I think the only problem with ‘bigeroxia’ or w/e is when teens think they are small and the ONLY way to get big is with drugs. So they do some cheap pro hormones since they are easy to get and legal and screw up their body and then get depressed.
a lot of companies take advantage of this obsession to get big, and try to sell lots of supplements which basically do nothing and everyone obsessed will jump and try it to get the key secret to getting big.
[quote]shizen wrote:
I think the only problem with ‘bigeroxia’ or w/e is when teens think they are small and the ONLY way to get big is with drugs. So they do some cheap pro hormones since they are easy to get and legal and screw up their body and then get depressed.
a lot of companies take advantage of this obsession to get big, and try to sell lots of supplements which basically do nothing and everyone obsessed will jump and try it to get the key secret to getting big.
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Well, it couldn’t be as simple as tripling your poundages, could it now?
Surely “anabolic halo” or whatever that shit was called is going to make your muscles magically bigger?
/sarcasm
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Why has this thread turned into some focus on whether I want to jump into competition or not?
Fair enough that it was a bad side track, but threads tend to do that.
I’m genuinely surprised that you’re giving this that much attention though. Morons have numbers on their side. There are probably people out there saying that whole quilting board we invaded had a quilting problem.
Why would you be surprised? Most of the comments I get (to my face) are positive, but things like this can tend to irritate you when you fit the “stereotype”. Like that video showed, there has been escalation as far as this term is concerned.
It used to ONLY describe those who were literally not functioning well in society because of their focus on self image. It was meant for those who turn down well paying jobs for more gym time or those who can’t see a movie because it cuts into meal time.
Now, they have evolved into using it for ANYONE who may have the slightest hint of muscle showing but who also wants to get bigger. There was only one guy in that video that really looked like a bodybuilder.
The rest couldn’t have had arms much over 16" yet they were ALL labeled the same…as if they had something wrong with them for working so hard to improve themselves.
Yes, I do think it reflects the desires of society and I don’t think they are done with the escalation of their diagnosis that we are all insane and that children should be saved from the big bad muscle men/women.[/quote]
I am glad you mentioned that it must interfere with your life for it to be a problem… I think the general population over diagnose, just because they hear it somewhere.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Frankly, I’m more concerned with “averagexia”. Yeah, multitudes of people shuffling through life striving to be average are a far greater threat to society than over-achievers.
When you have a vast majority of people willing to march in step you create a great opportunity for a pied piper to assume his place.
We get to vote on another one in November.
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So… are modeling agencies actually just big support groups for those with bigarexia?