Men and women seem to need to be looked at and approved by the other: either at home, at work, with friends, on TV, no matter where the body is always the main protagonist. The problem is that the daily demand can lead to people taking more extreme measures curiously become commonplace in societies like ours.
Excessive physical activity, coupled or not to use drugs in order to enhance physical performance, may lead to vigorexia or muscle dysmorphia. This is a disorder that attacks the psychic sphere in addition to feeding behavior and affects men whose obsession is to get a body "indestructible", which includes the fantasy of success and power. The vigorexia is considered a kind of addiction "nontoxic," also called "non-drug addiction" because it affects their behavior and others is reflected in problems with their family, social and labor due to addictive behavior.
Usually, the sufferer of this condition, see him as very small, fragile or weak, although it is actually the opposite. Then sought a development of your muscles and this attempt may appear different physical conditions such as injuries of muscles, tendons or bones. There is also a disparity between different parts of the body including the trunk and head or trunk and lower limbs and mental health problems such as anxiety or depression.
It is the opposite of anorexia, which is more common in women, where the body is perceived as too bulky and permit to achieve skeletal figures often put at risk the life of the person. The common factor in both diseases is the error in the perception of reality, this means they do not see what's in the mirror and your mind says something else and his behavior is conditional on that.
input is vital to family and friends to detect a problem, that person who spends hours in the gym many times failing to do important things such as eating, attend family gatherings or work, and seeks social approval, asking one or a thousand times to the other how it looks and always believes that one must continue to work other muscle, it can accompany the intake of substances that potentiate their physical performance, such as anabolic steroids, which have a number of effects adverse, complicating and endangering the welfare of that person.
currently becomes essential care and containment of a physician specialist in the field of addictions and with the support of family and social networks, are able to overcome this problem.
The treatment is basically to make a record the subject's cognitive behavior and thoughts, to Educate thus the effects on their daily lives, that's when you can give behavioral patterns, such as gradually reduce the number of hours that the gym. And to deal with cases where the patient perceives reality differently, ie in the mirror is thin, weak, when in real life, just the opposite, since it has hypertrophied muscles, then it is necessary to administer and monitoring of psychotropic drugs with your doctor.
In the best case, the patient fails to recover by extensive treatment in four months, however, monitoring is important at least six months and that for this type of addiction may be to resort again to the problem if they have medical advice from a specialist. Additionally, both the family, as friends become very important support at this time, where acceptance and love is essential to carry out their lives in full and healthy.
