Permarexia and Adonis Complex

Jose Angel Favela

Permarexia and Adonis Complex are conditions that are closely related to bigorexia, they can contribute to the development of bigorexia . These conditions are caused by the victim's insecurities, and created by the society's standards of beauty.

Permarexia is the condition that one finds himself trying to maintain a weight level she considers to enhance her acceptable body image. Permarexia is a permanent state of diet that in extreme cases maintains just enough sustenance to the human body to maintain a waif like appearance.
(http://www.permarexia.com/)

Permarexia is more common in women, especially in models and artists. In attempt to be well seen socially, they become obsessed with diet and more than obsessed with body image. Although it is more common in women, permarexia can also be shown in men, mainly in models.

Dieting for body image not only effects woman but also men, according to U.K. newspapers the number of men being treated for anorexia has increased by 67% in the last five years.
(permarexia.blogspot.com)

Permarexia can be a pre-symptom of anorexia, these people became so obssesed with diet, to the point that they eat just enough food to keep themselves alive. Permarexia can cause malnutrition and anemia.
Adonis Complex can be used as a synonym of bigorexia, since it is a complication of physical and mental problems, with the difference being that adonis complex is just shown in men.

The Adonis complex is a collection of male bodyimage problems that can include compulsive weightlifting and exercising, steroid abuse, eating disorders, and full-blownbody dysmorphic disorder.
(Harrison G. Pope, M.D)1

Unlike permarexia, where the person's goal is to look thinner, the people with adonis complex symptoms overexercise and consume steroids in order to look more masculine. People with this disease, think that they are not strong enough, that people will laugh about their appearance, and sometimes they do not want to show themselves to the world, afraid of what the people will say about them.

Interspersed with results from numerous studies are stories of men such as Eke Kevin, a fit, 230-pound bodybuilder who won'tgo outside for fear he looks too small, and Vince, a massive high school senior who is currently on a treatment of daily injections of steroid formulas including Equipoise, a product intended only for horses.
(psychservices.psychiatryonline.org)

Whether it is extreme dieting or overexercise, as a famous phrase says, everything in excess is bad. These two diseases can only be cured by psychological treatment, since they are constantly fed by the traumas and insecurities that people have.

1-psychservices.psychiatryonline.org
2-www.permarexia.com
3-permarexia.blogspot.com

Premature Maturation Caused by Steroid's Abuse

Jose Angel Favela


Since 1991 the consumption of anabolic steroids has been growing, especially in teenagers. The fact that the consumption has been rising, is making the problem of premature maturation bigger and bigger.This does not mean that teenagers are exempt from showing the normal side effects of consuming steroids, actually they may develop all of them together with premature maturation.

When a teenager consumes steroids, he is accelerating the natural process of development called adolesence, in this process the body develops physically and mentally. If a kid is thirteen years old, he is starting the adolesence period. If he starts using steroids, he would stop the bone growing process, he would not grow as tall as if he had not used steroids.

“Teens who abuse steroids run the risk of having short stature for the rest of their lives.” (Melissa Conrad Stöppler)4

Premature sexual development is the other part of premature maturation. Aside the bone lengthening problem, the teenager will also develop his sexual organs at a very young age.
Jack is an example of a teenager who in an attempt to get stronger, started to use steroids, but realized too late that it was harmful to his body.

Jack is a member of a local health club and former football player at Virginia Tech who exclaims, “I wanted the body of a 25-year old pro athlete at eighteen years old. What I didn’t understand was that at 18, I was still growing.” (http://www.steroidabuse.com/steroid-use-in-high-schools.html)

1-http://www.teendrugabuse.us/teensteroids.html
2-http://www.livestrong.com/article/13951-steroids/
3-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroids#Adverse_effects
4-http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52945
5-http://www.steroidabuse.com/steroid-use-in-high-schools.html

People Develop Vigorexia As A Result Of New Social Environments

carlos gerardo balderas campuzano

The people who suffer from Vigorexia have or had problems with their appearance, their self-esteem, or have suffered traumas because of their physique at a certain points of their lives.

Vigorexia sufferers desire a perfect “image” to fit the supposed requirements of their social groups and to meet the need to be accepted as part of a larger community. As social beings, humans have the need to socialize and to feel that they are an important part of society. They also have the need to receive attention from others and vice versa.

The psychological part of the individual takes an important part of the main cause of the development of this disease. For example: experience, upsets, or traumas suffered by the person at certain point of his life drive the victim to Vigorexic behavior. Experiences such as critiques or their looks, if they were too small, too thin, too big, or too fat; together with the lack of familiar support of their ideas, and rejection by the ones surrounding them (family, friends or the general society) are the factors which shape the perfectionist personality that is a characteristic of his type of person.

As this internet publisher states about the cognitive hypothesis explanation:

“When a person has a negative appraisal of internal body image, it influences the external representation of appearance. That triggers processing self as an aesthetic object which results in negative internal body image.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia


This article excerpt describes the perception of oneself in Vigorexic persons, contributing to a vicious circle of wrong ideas and false thoughts about the victim’s self worth that lead the victim to despise of him or herself, as a reaction to the depreciation of his body image.

The most accepted hypothesis on the causes of Vigorexia, the cognitive-behavioral explanation states:

“The responsibility for muscle dysmorphia is shared by: cultural factors, biological predispositions, psychological vulnerabilities and early childhood experiences. Cultural factors manifest themselves in an exaggerated emphasis on appearance, physical strength and attractiveness.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

This hypothesis combines different factors, such as cultural, biological, psychological and experiences of the individuals. The result of these diverse variables is the projection of the individual’s insecurity and self-esteem that obligates the Vigorexic to push to the limit his or her physiology in the attempt to change its physiology.

The Vigorexic victims communicate their mental issues and their traumas with what psychologists call “Body Language”; Body Language consists of the explanation that people, who cannot express their feelings or upsets by speaking, eventually represent them with actions, gestures or gesticulations.

Risks And Consequences That May Be Present When Exercise Is Done In Excessive Amounts

Luis Jesús García de la Torre. 4th Semester - Bicultural

Bigorexia is considered to be a new mental disorder which causes people, typically men, to believe their bodies are too thin. These people then do different things to increase muscular mass, mainly they over exercise to get stronger and look better. This disorder is also known as muscle dysmorphia (a disorder where people are obsessed with being muscular).
(http://www.healthyplace.com) ( http://www.eating-disorder.com)

In most of the cases when somebody becomes bigorexic they change their habits and begin to do new and different things that generally tend to be healthy, but the real problem is that these things are done in excess and then they become unhealthy. Then after a period of time bigorexic people suffer many different health problems and injuries due to over exercise, like pains, broken bones, and muscular problems, (in this case the problem is increased because people don’t allow their bodies to rest correctly). “In an article [written] by Dr.Brenda Woods and Dr. Kevin Wandler in 2006 for the organization ‘Finding Balance’ it was found that training in excess and through pain may cause broken bones, pains, muscle joints, etc.”. In some cases when eating habits are changed people provoke their body to change in a radical way, which may lead to problems. There is a risk that organs may be damaged.
(http://www.scribd.com)

This psychological problem may affect women too, and in their particular case they may become infertile. This may occur because women do excessive exercise and they lift more weight than what they can safely handle. All this weight and overwork is received by the uterus which gets weaker and loses its capacity to take care of a fetus.
(http://www.healthyplace.com) (http://www.scribd.com)


Exercise is an excellent way to be a healthy person. When it is followed by a good diet that contains all kinds of foods, it may be the best way to be in good form, to get a good body, and the most important, to be healthy. The problem is that a lot people want even more than to be healthy so they overwork with their bodies and exceed their diets to a point that it may even be mortal. A good way to make people be conscious of these problems is to teach them that the importance of this is to be healthy, not to be thin nor to have a nice body.

Information Sources:
http://www.healthyplace.com
http://www.scribd.com
http://www.eating-disorder.com

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Here there is my new information source:
http://www.eating-disorder.com/Eating-Treatment/Eating-Disorders/bigorexia.htm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

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