posted April 07, 2000 12:28 PM            

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I was reading playboy's new issue and they actually had this word defined. It is the "need" for body builders to get bigger and bigger and bigger. Has anyone heard of this? I thought everyone wanted to be more muscular and better looking. I think it is a crock of crap.

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posted April 07, 2000 01:55 PM            

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The scientific term is Muscle Dismorphia
you know you have it when

1) you freak out cause you didnt get enough calories for the day

2) you freak cause you miss a workout

3) you look in the mirror and you think you are getting smaller but more and more people are becoming afraid of your massivness

the list continues... most of you know the feeling

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posted April 07, 2000 02:39 PM            

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Muscle Dismorphia is a very recent label for what I feel is a doctor's way of saying he envies your discipline.

Seriously though, it is a relatively new term that's been getting alot of press. I think its a joke.

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posted April 07, 2000 02:55 PM            

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I think there is some truth to this.

I personally havent noticed my body changing as much as the people around me. I started at 150lbs at 18% bf, and this winter I was 225 at 10%. The friends I dont see very often freak out when I see them. But - I always feel a little small or a little soft no matter how big or hard I get. Im a very secure person, so I blow it off and tell myself I look better than 95% of the population, but I have some friends that freak out if you tell them they are looking a little small. Even when they are actually growing.

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posted April 07, 2000 03:30 PM            

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Chances are, after you've read a book on criminal pshycology you'd think you were a sociopath as well.

Indeed it is very common for us to "watch the pot" too much and not notice the changes in our bodies. But to reduce every nuance to a mental disorder is simply job security for psychologists.

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posted April 07, 2000 03:40 PM            

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I think it's a joke as well.

WTF is wrong with trying to achieve the biggest and best body possible?

Scourge is right, physcologists find a reason for everything.

I guess I have speed dismorphia because I like to drive the fastest motorcycles and cars .. I love to eat steak, so that's steak dismorhia, and don't even mention my sex dismorphia !!!

It's all bullshit !

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posted April 07, 2000 03:49 PM         

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I know I have it and its what makes you such a disciplined lifter and dieter. What do they call people like Michael Jordan that can't stand to lose and love competition? I don't think all complexes are bad if they push you to never be complacent and always try to improve!
LIVE MASSIVE
DEMAROID

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posted April 07, 2000 04:05 PM            

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I personally think that it exists, maybe in not any of you that are on here. But when you are afraid to go out in public in anything but baggy clothes because you think that someone will laugh at you, and you are 5'8" and weigh 240 at 8% bf then there is definitely something not right upstairs.

Just because someone writes an article, everyone takes it personally and thinks that the media is referring to "them".

Also, doesn't it seem kinda strange that someone would risk their health just to "look better"? What does it matter what people think how you look?

You have to understand that if even one person experiences a condition, the medical community establishes a name for it, whether it is legit or not. That is just the way they are.

Picture a bunch of doctors going around saying "well, he's messed up cause he thinks he isn't big enough" syndrome. Dsymorphia is a lot easier to say.

Frankly, I know a guy (he is straight) that turns down pussy because it "takes away from his body's testosterone production towards building muscle".

THAT IS A SICKNESS GUYS.

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posted April 07, 2000 09:34 PM         

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It's a legitimate form of Body Dismorphic Disorder which also includes anorexia...

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posted April 08, 2000 10:29 AM            

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try www.concernedcounseling.com/ccijournal/ed_muscle_dysmorphia_htm

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posted April 08, 2000 10:28 PM            

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ok I'm 100% Greek and the only usage for the word "dismorphia" or "dismorfia" (same thing different spelling)I know is something like "bad shape". "Dis" means "difficult" or "uneven" and "morphia" means shape. Thats my two cents.

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posted April 08, 2000 11:07 PM            

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Oh yeah, I forgot "unusual"...

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posted April 09, 2000 12:05 AM            

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So they came up with a word for liking to be in good shape? And now it's an illness?WTF is up with that? I think that people who sit around and try to fiqure out what makes other people tick have too much time on their hands and thats another kind of sickness. That form of mental illness is called Psychiatry, and these are people who really are f--ked up.The sufferers are called psychiatrists and they spread their illness around like typhoid mary. It's bullshit...

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posted April 09, 2000 01:53 AM            

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I think the media is trying to hype it. Basically if everyone isn't lean and on a super lowfat diet or vegetarian then they get all worked up. Haven't you ever seen those Bally's commercials? The "fit" body is a lean skinny body with no muscle mass, just muscle tone. I say show me the gym where the dudes have their hats on backwards and are cussing out the guy behind the desk because the dumbbells only go up to 200lbs. I want to see freak who have muscle dysmorphia. I want to be a freak like that...screw society.

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posted April 09, 2000 02:37 AM         

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sounds crazy..but I trained myself to be "muscle dysmorphic".....it keeps me inline and wanting to grow, and grow, and.....

It works when I look in the mirror, I think I'm small, but when I see myself in a picture or video, I always say "damn, am I really that big..??"

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posted April 09, 2000 09:24 AM            

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First off, society pushes the "perfect" body whether you're into bodybuilding or not. Just look at all the people on the average commercial, it's the kind of thing that drives the "regular" guy crazy. But I have the sickness to some degree too, just gotta' keep things in perspective. Stay focused, but don't let it get to the point where it ruins family or close relationships.

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posted April 09, 2000 10:54 AM            

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HELL YEH, i have the damn sickness!! its what drives me to the damn gym, hell i can never be big enough, if so, it just wouldn't be bodybuilding now would it. This isn't a new idea, reverse anorexia has been talked about for years. I don't really have it that bad, but i think we all have it to some degree. I mean how many of you sit in front of the mirror at your local gym and say, damn, im so big and hard, look at my arms and chest!! No, most sit there and critique themselves on what 99.9% of the population would kill to have! They sit there and see themselves smaller and smaller the more they think about it. Bodybuilding is so mental, thats why most never succeed at it.

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