Roberto Olivardia, PhD
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And I almost universally hear the same thing.
I want acceptance.
I want respect.
I want to be loved.
I want to, you know, basically be free of criticism, which, of course, none of us are going to be immune to criticism.
And I tell my patients, those are great values.
You know, we all those are human values to be loved, to be accepted, to be connected.
There's no pathology associated with that.
The problem is, and I always kind of almost personify the disorder or make it something different than the person to say, well, an eating disorder or muscle dysmorphia is lying to you because it's making you think you're going to get closer to that value.
through the disorder.
And it's a lie that it's not.
In fact, it's doing the very opposite.
It's moving you away from those values.
And a perfect example of that was in my very first research study I did on muscle dysmorphia.
And this was a man who said, please feel free to share this example for as many years.
very bright guy um and he in his mid-20s working out five hours a day was taking multiple anabolic steroids obsessed looking in the mirror whatnot he had already had some adverse health consequences he had a severe kidney infection that put him at a very high risk of losing a kidney because of his his substance use chronic pain which had him addicted to nubane which was a painkiller
Cystic acne, erectile dysfunction, hair loss.
And I asked him that same question.
What's the ultimate?
And he said, I just want to be successful with women.
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