Vigorexia
The vigorexia, not recognized as a disease by the international medical community, but it is a disorder or emotional disorder where physical characteristics are perceived in a distortedway, like what happens when you suffer from anorexia, but in reverse .
A person who is always lacking in tone and muscles, which leads to physical exercise obsessively compulsive and weights everyday continuously, you have vigorexia, in most cases your body is disproportionate, acquiring a little muscle mass according to your size and build.
The disorder or mental disorder associated beautywith increased muscle mass. Most of the times of day are devoted to physical exercise and think you can perform a diet rich in protein to build muscle and body. This picture is compounded wheneverything comes together with the consumption of anabolic steroids or to facilitate or enhance the increase of body proportions. Then, and therefore, increases the risk of disease, liver damage, heartdisease, erectile dysfunction, fertility problems and prostate cancer, among others.
With all the above the profile of a person with this disorder includes timely:
• Obsession with a muscular body, butat the end, because although I have already obtained, their vision is so distorted that the mirror continues to be weak.
• Distortion of body image
• Low self-esteem
• Training with compulsive andalmost exclusive dedication, leaving aside other issues and events of social, labor and culture.
• Addiction Scale
• Tendency to self-medication
• Diet high in protein, in most cases the diet issupplemented with products and anabolic steroids.
Like anorexia vigorexia presents a distorted body image. It affects both women and men, but unlike anorexia, is more a male disorder. There is asocial and professional isolation, as this emotional disorder, may evolve into an obsessive compulsive box, to which is added an altered nutritional, metabolic and body deformation.
All these are...
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