Do you suffer from Bigorexia?

[HansNZ]

I often look at my physique and feel frustrated with the numerous flaws that I perceive it as having. I finished a cycle 6 weeks ago and I am feeling frustrated about how scrawny I now look. I have recently begun wearing quite covering clothes because I am disappointed with the current state of my physique, and generally I don't feel particularly attractive at the moment. Occasionally, however, other people have made comments about how muscular I am. This has lead me to think that I might be suffering from a mild case of bigorexia.

My question: Am I alone in this or do others think that they may suffer from this problem occasionally too?

 

[V-SHAPE 2]

i hate that shit, ive been off for 2 months and lost some water and i feel like im small, yet everybody says i got huge.

 

[HansNZ]

You forgot to vote V-SHAPE

 

[Pimp C]

I do a little, I don't feel much bigger since I started lifting a few years ago and I've put on about 30lbs since then. I think it has alot to do with not gaining much the past year and a half.

 

[needsize]

I have a severe case of bigorexia, but I can't think of another psychological disorder I'd rather have!

 

[Komo]

I have got it bad.... 4 hours between meals and I feel myself shrinking to a little skinny turd!!!!!

 

[Beezers]

I'm on an afterschool special about bigorexia next week I suffer from this purposefull insanity in the worst way. I'm pushing 260 now and think I look 180ish. I never and do mean never see my gains. Others make compliments and I get the stares, but it never sinks in what the looks and words actually mean. I cannot miss a meal or go more than two hours without one without thinking I just lost 50 pounds of muscle due to my inconsistancy. I'm overly critical of my physique for sure, but is that not what keeps most of us striving for better results. This false image of myself ironically is my motivation to keep pushing forward.

 

[muscleup]

I know I have it.

 

[supertraps]

I definitely have it bad. I am cutting right now, and definitely losing a lot of fat, but I feel tiny. I think this "disease" a fallacy that skinny nerd doctors come up with to insult people who make succesful efforts to better there physiques.

 

[Rotty]

Bros, I am right there with ya all. I feel much happier when I am bulking, you know, wearing threads to show the muscles, but then when I am in a cutting stage I wear baggy clothes. People dont understand it, I hate when people say "You look like you lost wait, are you feeling ok". Anway I hate it but I guess that comes with the game.

 

[jstrong20]

I definatley have it and voted I think I seriously do need therapy.
Testosterone therapy

 

[BigDdaGanjalist]

I'm on an afterschool special about bigorexia next week

What network is it going to be on?

I used to have it REAL bad, impaired my life. I have a few threads about it on the chat board.

I'm getting better with the help of a professional and have noticed a difference in my attitudes toward things in general.

eZ!

 

[deez]

I hate it. If i miss a meal i feel small. If i dont wear the right shirt i feel small. It sucks it really does. I hope it will soon end but from the way you bros talk it wont. I was 145 when i started lifting now im 190. Im hoping when i get to 225 i will be satisfied. ANyone else in here been like that and achieved what there goal was and were satisfied with themselves? I hope im happy with 225. I dont think i can get any bigger than that really. Its been hard getting here. Nothing brings me down more though then when i look into the wrong mirror. AHHH SUICIDE.

 

[pittbull2]

I know I have it , see I'm just a little guy only 5'6 207 and I get all the looks too but I feel skinny. I think i need to gain 40 lbs some times I feel so small I hate to get out in public I know I need therapy.

 

[trial0r]

i think at the very least we all have mild cases of it.

 

[augastes_stiranko]

people who suffer from bigorexia are the ones that are the most serious and most determined bodybuilders to push past their limits. It's totaly normal and if you don't suffer from bigorexian it means that you are not yet serious about training. Ask any serious bodybuilder at your gym and they will most likely tell you they suffer from bigorexia.

 

[Cornellius]

Yes I do, and I am prud of suffering it....

 

[South of the border]

It is called reverse anexoria by the way.

 

[Bigty2]

Man what else is there to live for?

 

[GLASSVOICE]

I can say I do not have anything like that as of now. Once I get to my set goal on my second cycle, I will tell you a story. Maybe then I will know the meaning of reverse anorexia. I definitely know that I am not happy with the way I look but it does not mean that I have bigorexia!

Glassvoice

 

[Doch910]

I have it worse then anyone. I set my goals,get there and im still not big enough. If i don't eat i can tell i start to shrink. People say dude your big, i say no im not im small. i think i need help

 

[musclebrains]

Out of curiosity: Did this same feeling motivate you to start training in the first place...or is this an effect of training?

 

[eric88]

i juiced 8 of 12 months this year and put on 40 lbs and i still feel like a little fuck. guess i'll just juice for 8 more then i will be o.k.

 

[Zyglamail]

What are the difinitive symptoms? Just feeling you are smaller than you are or plain and simple obsession with getting large? Personally I think all these labels are bullshit because every so called professional shrink or whatnot will have a different opinion on the degree of ones actions for the clasification of bigorexia. Thats the problem with mental sciences, there is no black and white. You go to a regular doc, you wither have a broken arem or you dont. You goto a mental health professional and you will get as many diagnoses as docs you see. If its not driving every aspect of your existance, then who the fuck cares?

 

[musclebrains]

Yep. I'm a psychologist and actually do a seminar twice a year partly on this subject. I think it's vastly overstated -- another diagnosis to make cash. But then I read a thread like this and I wonder.

 

[Mike80]

correct me if Im wrong, but the medical term for what you call bigorexia and reverse anorexia is actually called muscle dysmorphia, and yes it is the opposite of anorexia

 

[musclebrains]

Yep, and the pop psy name for it in men is the "Adonis Complex," title of a book published a year or two ago.

 

[Big Brother Val]

I don't know if it's really a problem.

But I think that way.

I feel skinny.

REALLY skinny.

Sometimes, I feel a bit bigger. Sometimes I like how I look in a certain shirt... other days, I feel like a stick figure in it.

I always thought when I hit 220 I'd get over it. Well... I'm almost there... and it's worse now than it used to be.

I don't think it's really unhealthy though. I eat better because of it. I train harder because of it. And I risk time in prison taking illegal substances to help make myself bigger.

 

[Doch910]

We all have it or we wounld not train. But is it really that serious of a disorder. Like I am wondering if i go to a doc. he is going to give me therapy or drugs.

 

[painly]

we all have it

Anyone that does juice has it. WE are willing to inject to get bigger, thats an obsession, I dont see it as a problem though. Anerexia takes way more lives and hurts many more families, adn they dont even look good after all there work.

And i think we should all get therapy, about 1000mg sust/week, 500mg deca/week and about 50mg dbol/day should do the trick for a while.

Painly

 

[littlearnold1069]

And I risk time in prison taking illegal substances to help make myself bigger.

i know...ain't it sad, we juice up to get big, which doesn't hurt anyone by the way, and we can be punished...i have it too...when i was 240, pushing 250 i thought i was still small....even though an xl t-shirt was skin tight..

 

[Doch910]

We are all very disturbed. But its cool. I just hope when i get too 200 i feel big, so i won't have to start going to therapy

 

[CRAZYPITBULL]

I think it all boils down to individual perception.When I started training I was 165lbs,and I thought if I could ever hit 200,I'd be happy.I'm now up to 218,and I still feel little.

 

[calfzilla]

haha WHAT MEN WOULD DO FOR MUSCLES
finally and I thought I was the only one . I got it too and bad . I m 6'2 at 255lbs
and still feel skinny as fuck . I always cover up in the gym because I think I got nothing to show "the gym is the place to work out not to pose" . I only buy baggy stuff and I nver like fitted shit when I go out.I ve got 29 inch thight 19.inch calves and I still where sweat pants under my jeans . I get a lot of compliments about my physique to even be called a freak by couple of friends but when I see that flex wheeeler or arnold picture on my wall i feel like I got galaxies to go . i don t know I dont want any help because I think i will kill my drive to sucess and working hard at the gym but like my ex girlfriend says some days I wish I was still that skinny happy surfer wearing a hawain shirt

 

[calfzilla]

one more thought here
I think if you are reading thise board spending a large amount of your pay check buy stuff that may kill you or get you in jail .,,,,,,,then you are just like me and got bigorexia
unless you woke up from your night mare and decided to create EAS after 15 years of juicin
and you guys know who I m talking about( BILL FAG PHILLIPS )