Users of gyms at risk of body disorder

• April 28, 2024

Exercising is vital to staying healthy and fit. However, those people who go to sports clubs or who go to gyms and have self-esteem problems are at risk of developing body dysmorphia , better known as vigorexia .

This disorder is characterized by an obsession to exercise for more than two hours a day; men and women want to have a muscled body and on that they base their worth.

In this regard, doctor Consuelo Escoto, researcher at the University Center UAEM Ecatepec, said: "People most vulnerable to falling into body dysmorphia they are the perfectionists and those who focus all their value on the body image ".

Escoto Ponce de León, indicates what is the profile of people who fall into this emotional disorder, also known as vigorexia :

1. They exercise at least two hours a day.2. They exercise six or seven days a week.3. They can even give up their work, because they "believe" they need to spend more time on their body. 4. If for some reason, they can not exercise, they feel bad, ugly, empty and sad. Your happiness depends on your body. 5. Sometimes the obsession is so much that even with tears or in unsuitable conditions, practice exercise.

Emotional reinforcers

The researcher from the UAEM University Center, Ecatepec, indicates that this disorder is difficult to identify, since the person does not accept it, he lies about his routine hours, but being a anxiety disorder , must be treated in an integral way:

"In the body dysmorphia We pass the limit of the healthy to the pathological, at the moment when this is affecting your social, work or emotional life. Therefore, psychological help and an acceptance that the person needs help is required. "

However, one of the factors that prevents people from realizing that doing so many hours of exercise or focusing only on the muscle development of your body, it's not healthy, it's because the people around you reinforce the idea that they look good:

"A serious mistake that all people make is that when we see a drastic change in the body of a person we say, how good you look, you look younger, more handsome and that should not be the case.

Escoto Ponce de León, affirms that it is necessary to go in favor of a healthy life and not of the obsession towards food or to perform extreme exercise, because they are emotional problems that creep in and can end people's lives.

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