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Timothy turned to steroids to get broad shoulders, large pecs and a small waistline. He first started using them when he was 17. Now 24, he wishes he could turn back the clock.
"I was always the runt of the pack. I stood about 5'6" and weighed about 112 pounds," says Timothy. "I always whined about my size until a friend offered me a way to bulk up. I started poppin' before I lifted, and it became routine to throw a few back just for a surge of energy."
"By the end of senior year I was huge," he remembers. "I had put on about 35 pounds of solid muscle, but then I started to get those tell-tale signs."
"I remember for my senior prom, I had an incredibly bad breakout of acne. But it wasn't only my face --- my chest, back, arms, everywhere. I looked like a big zit."
It got worse.
Something snapped
"I was benching about 250, 270, somewhere around there, when I felt something snap in my chest," says Tim. "I fell to the ground in the most excruciating pain I felt in my life, and had to be rushed to the hospital. I had torn two ligaments in my shoulder and a muscle in my chest. That's when I realized looking good wasn't worth killing myself."
(While steroids make you look stronger on the outside, they're weakening your insides, according to information from the National Institutes of Health.)
Some guys don't go to these lengths. They just walk around feeling bad.
"I look at some of my friends and just wish I could drop a few pounds here and there, 'cause I'm too fat," says Elijah, 13. "After all, who ever tells the average fat guy he looks good?"
Is there help out there for boys?
Michael Gurian, Ph.D. and author of A Fine Young Man, says, "Guys are much more alone on this issue than females. It's fairly new to the public. There's no doubt in my mind that in five to 10 years there will be support groups" for guys who have struggled with body image problems. But right now, there aren't many.
"A Boys Clan"
"I was always the runt of the pack. I stood about 5'6" and weighed about 112 pounds," says Timothy. "I always whined about my size until a friend offered me a way to bulk up. I started poppin' before I lifted, and it became routine to throw a few back just for a surge of energy."
"By the end of senior year I was huge," he remembers. "I had put on about 35 pounds of solid muscle, but then I started to get those tell-tale signs."
"I remember for my senior prom, I had an incredibly bad breakout of acne. But it wasn't only my face --- my chest, back, arms, everywhere. I looked like a big zit."
It got worse.
Something snapped
"I was benching about 250, 270, somewhere around there, when I felt something snap in my chest," says Tim. "I fell to the ground in the most excruciating pain I felt in my life, and had to be rushed to the hospital. I had torn two ligaments in my shoulder and a muscle in my chest. That's when I realized looking good wasn't worth killing myself."
(While steroids make you look stronger on the outside, they're weakening your insides, according to information from the National Institutes of Health.)
Some guys don't go to these lengths. They just walk around feeling bad.
"I look at some of my friends and just wish I could drop a few pounds here and there, 'cause I'm too fat," says Elijah, 13. "After all, who ever tells the average fat guy he looks good?"
Is there help out there for boys?
Michael Gurian, Ph.D. and author of A Fine Young Man, says, "Guys are much more alone on this issue than females. It's fairly new to the public. There's no doubt in my mind that in five to 10 years there will be support groups" for guys who have struggled with body image problems. But right now, there aren't many.
"A Boys Clan"
that was great
