Roberto Olivardia, PhD
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So these were men who were – some of them had disordered eating or full-on clinical eating disorders.
Some did not.
But they were often –
you know, muscular big guys who are obsessed with working out.
When they looked in the mirror, they saw someone who looked scrawny, weak, puny were the words that they would use.
And despite people telling them, what are you talking about?
You're a big guy, you're muscular.
they didn't see it.
And even if they saw it, the fear that tomorrow they could lose that drove them to compulsively work out at the gym.
Many of them were engaging in anabolic steroid use, engaging in a lot of harmful supplement use, avoiding situations.
And these are not men who are proudly showing off their physiques at Venice Beach, California.
The men with muscle dysmorphia were...
because they had this disordered body image are covering their bodies up.
They wouldn't leave the house because they felt that they looked too small.
So we first kind of coined reverse, is this reverse anorexia?
Because it's not always an eating disorder, we really classified it as a subtype of body dysmorphic disorder.
And that's where it sort of lies.
So if we look at this from various lenses, kind of in a biopsychosocial, social cultural model.
So we do know that many of the boys and men with muscle dysmorphia do have for often family histories of depression, of obsessive compulsive disorder, of eating disorders, typically
psychologically, you'll often hear, I hear a lot in my patients, either histories of being bullied.
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