Carlos Gerardo Balderas Campuzano
Vigorexia’s victims require special treatments involving family, friends, and society in general to support them and help them to overcome this disease. People who are victims of this illness generally do not realize it, they believe themselves to be healthy and in excellent condition, while the family, relatives and friends see that little by little they are being consumed and deteriorated by Vigorexia.
The treatments used to control or to remove this constant need of exercising are multidisciplinary, meaning that it takes the contribution of several factors or elements to complete this important task:
1) Balanced diet of nutrient and vitamins required by the body and the suppression of anabolic steroids. 2) Psychotherapy, to understand the behavioral aspect of their individual and the distorted perception of reality. 3) Pharmacotherapy, the use of medications to control anxiety, the compulsive conduct and to reduce stress and obsession to workout.
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Vigorexic’s victims rarely accept their disease and the lack of self-steem makes it hard to overcome this illnes:
“A particular problem with the condition is that, rather like anorexics, men rarely see themselves as having a problem and are unlikely to come forward for treatment. The condition itself occurs partly as a response to feelings of depression and lack of self-esteem so coming forward for treatment is admitting defeat”. http://menshealth.about.com/cs/menonly/a/bigorexia_2.htm
The family, love ones, and friend’s support and solidarity during the treatment process play an important role in the victim’s quest to overcoming this illness, helping the affected one to change the perspective they have on their bodies:
“Treatment for vigorexia involves long term psychological care. Counseling is usually recommended, and sometimes psychiatric drugs may be used to manage depression, especially in the early stages of treatment. Support from friends and family members are also critical.”
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All these aspects must be supervised by professionals in each area, and with the family’s unconditional support at each stage to ensure the effectiveness of the program. The main goal is to change the behavior of the subject and rebuild their self-steem.
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Like in every addiction, the affected person do not accept they have it until the people that sorround him start having talks with him about this. I think parents have an important role in this because its their responsability to give the appropiated guidance to the person(talking about a teenager or young adult).
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Post author: Carlos Balderaz Campuzano
The people have developed a great culture about the need for physical exercise, not only just to look good, but also for living a healthy and harmonious life in every way.
Gyms, exercise methods, videos and a professional coaches, are all around the internet, TV and news, to make the physical activity a pleasure and a real need, but also are in excess is dangerous here is where an illness call bigorexia appear.
Bigorexia is a illness that in this decade Is most commonly seen in the people. This is a big problem because people tend to demand more to their body.
People with bigorexia already have very muscular bodies but they want more, and s for that reason they increase the time of making exercise, and change their alimentation.
To overcome this illness the victims need a lot of support of their families because the victims do not accept that they need help. And so for that reason families need to be patient and help the victim.
There are many ways to help people with this illness. But of course victims need to be with professionals to overcome the illness.
I agree on the point that these people need professional or special treatments, bigorexia is not a simple illness that could go away with the time, is a disorder that must be treated in a special clinic or under the supervision of a specialist in this area, all that with the help and support of the relatives and friends that worry for the health of the patient. The rehabilitation can be long and painful for the patient or for the relatives which lived a lot of time of distress, but all that can be overcome with these special treatments.
ReplyDeleteI agree in most of this, maybe not in the point where it say it needs a special treatment. In some cases it may, where the person is really into it, but actually this can be easly prevented, and you can avoid getting into other more agressive treatments with drugs etc; by creating a good selfsteem but not based in our physical appearance but having a strong mind, to mature and realize that we don’t exactly need to be all muscular to be popular or “in good shape”.
ReplyDeleteThat is another thing that is a great factor, the media. The media has implanted on us the wrong perception of what is socially acceptable or desirable. We allways see in the tv, movies or whatever that the “good looking” guy or girl is thin, tall, muscular or things like that.
One thing I strongly agree is that family and friends are a vital factor to overcoming this problem, I think that actually is the major source besides the person himself, because this problem is based on a feeling that is created on our perception on how the other see us. Other reasons for this problem are the competitive atmosphere it is commonly created between men, so having a good self steem and a strong mind its imperative, something you get from a good parent supervision and guideance.