What coaches or peers don’t see is the extreme behaviors and harmful, intrusive thoughts that may be hidden from view.” ...

To assess muscle dysmorphia, researchers used the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory (MDDI), a 13-item questionnaire measuring symptoms related to the drive for muscular size, appearance ...

Weak Voluntary Muscles: Skeletal Muscle Diseases, Neuromuscular Disorders, and Other Causes Neuromuscular disorders, also called skeletal muscle disorders, are conditions that affect the nerves that ...

This behaviour, if allowed to grow into an obsession, can lead to a body dysmorphic disorder dubbed as “muscle dysmorphia” or “bigorexia”, experts warn. Warped self-view Body dysmorphic ...

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition in which people are preoccupied with a perceived flaw in their appearance—often something minor or invisible to others. Individuals ...

In cases of traditionally “feminine” eating disorders (i.e related to thin body ideals), this eating disorder stigma is a possible barrier to help-seeking behavior in men.