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Goodfellow
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If anything i'd say that I have 'I hate being mediocre disease' ...Quick! Someone help! |
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feniks
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Yes, I also have fastorexia, strongorexia, richorexia, smartorexia, sexorexia. I was diagnosed with the conditions pretty late. I hope to someday find the help that i need so i can finally live a normal healthy life. |
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GetTheHIT
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Dude was sportin' a MAJOR uni-brow back in the day! |
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musicma1n1
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"there's a little demon that tells me even if I win, it's not good enough"
Some people called that demon drive or motivation. |
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GrindOverMatter
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" I got up in the morning and the first thing on me mind was, I need a proper breakfast"
oh dear |
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grettiron
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musicma1n1 wrote:
"there's a little demon that tells me even if I win, it's not good enough"
Some people called that demon drive or motivation.
and that's the way it should be.
winning, or in the case of non-comp lifters - achieving goals, is never good enough. once you get your 500lb deadlift, are you gonna stop deadlifting? no! you're gonna shoot for 600! |
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MEYMZ
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Now you know it folks, if you see a big dude in the gym now you have the way out of saying "poor man, he's just nuts". |
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Zack Nelson
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My symptoms seem to fluctuate and I am not sure what the stimulus is. Seriously. At times I feel pretty big, at other times I feel anorexic. I know some clothes change how big I feel. Also some people - if I am waiting in line at the bank next to some chick who is 6'1" 200 LBS and not very fat, I can feel like I need to get bigger haha. Its weird - sometimes I feel kind of big, and sometimes I feel way small - but I guess I always feel like I could use a little more muscle. But if I grow - I still feel that way. |
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Muscles297
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GrindOverMatter wrote:
" I got up in the morning and the first thing on me mind was, I need a proper breakfast"
oh dear
And that was only the BEGINNING of each obsessive day. Food is fuel followed by exercise.
dear GOD this man is CRAZY! |
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Vejne
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I always liked when those who haven't trained or participated in any sports felt it their right to tell us that we are in fact sick people, who needs treatment. After all, they have to make their living, so I don't mind them. |
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ev1bl
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people who run can never run fast enough, people who jump can never jump high enough, and now this? what a sick and twisted world we live in |
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I'm not sure. Is wanting to have shoulders like Ron Coleman, Bigorexia? |
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Iron Dwarf
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One of the things I despise about our culture is that everything has to have a fucking label. People can't deal with anything other than black & white. It's so easy to be an armchair expert on any subject as long as it's labeled for convenience. Short guys get accused of having "Napoleon Complex". Ambitious women get tagged with "Penis Envy", and so forth. Usually there's some sort of blame, or dysfunction attached to the label.
The media loves it and so do the idiot average Americans.
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Matthaeus
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Iron Dwarf wrote:
One of the things I despise about our culture is that everything has to have a fucking label. People can't deal with anything other than black & white. It's so easy to be an armchair expert on any subject as long as it's labeled for convenience. Short guys get accused of having "Napoleon Complex".
Ambitious women get tagged with "Penis Envy", and so forth. Usually there's some sort of blame, or dysfunction attached to the label.
The media loves it and so do the idiot average Americans.
That's just your "small man syndrome" talking, not you. |
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angus_beef
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If there's anyone out there who believes in anorexia and don't believe in bigorexia, then you are simply a hypocrite. The guy has 19 inch arms yet still he thinks he's "skinny", this is definitely psychological.
Thats like a girl with every single rib visible yet still she thinks she's fat. This guy is easily over 200lbs and he's definitely not tall from what i can see. I doubt anyone on here who is under 5 10" and over 200 lbs sees themselves as skinny.
You may not consider yourself big and you may still want to make gains and improvement, but i doubt you see yourself as "skinny". If you do then you need help also. |
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Professor X
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angus_beef wrote:
If there's anyone out there who believes in anorexia and don't believe in bigorexia, then you are simply a hypocrite. The guy has 19 inch arms yet still he thinks he's "skinny", this is definitely psychological.
Thats like a girl with every single rib visible yet still she thinks she's fat. This guy is easily over 200lbs and he's definitely not tall from what i can see. I doubt anyone on here who is under 5 10" and over 200 lbs sees themselves as skinny.
You may not consider yourself big and you may still want to make gains and improvement, but i doubt you see yourself as "skinny". If you do then you need help also.
That guy also wants to be on tv. |
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Zack Nelson
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Iron Dwarf wrote:
One of the things I despise about our culture is that everything has to have a fucking label. People can't deal with anything other than black & white.
It's so easy to be an armchair expert on any subject as long as it's labeled for convenience. Short guys get accused of having "Napoleon Complex".
Ambitious women get tagged with "Penis Envy", and so forth. Usually there's some sort of blame, or dysfunction attached to the label.
The media loves it and so do the idiot average Americans.
Not only does everything have to have a label, but everything has to be a problem or a sickness. Addicted to food? - Like anyone could give up eating the way someone can give up drugs.... But that is how stupid it is. There are few things left that are not yet considered problems - I guess next is addicted to breathing.
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Augustus
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Agree with the comments about everything needing a label now. It also often means that people are never at fault, because they have a condition that 'makes' them do it.
Why are bodybuilders said to have bigorexia, but olympic sprinters aren't said to have fastorexia. Longjumpers don't have jumporexia. |
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angus_beef
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Professor X wrote:
angus_beef wrote:
If there's anyone out there who believes in anorexia and don't believe in bigorexia, then you are simply a hypocrite. The guy has 19 inch arms yet still he thinks he's "skinny", this is definitely psychological.
Thats like a girl with every single rib visible yet still she thinks she's fat. This guy is easily over 200lbs and he's definitely not tall from what i can see. I doubt anyone on here who is under 5 10" and over 200 lbs sees themselves as skinny.
You may not consider yourself big and you may still want to make gains and improvement, but i doubt you see yourself as "skinny". If you do then you need help also.
That guy also wants to be on tv.
Maybe so, but i was just addressing the fact that the condition is real. From the comments on this thread it seems like alot of the guys were taking this personal, as though it was directed towards them or targeted at all bodybuilders. I believe thats why a comparison to all sports is being made in an attempt to justify the "label" argument.
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Professor X
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angus_beef wrote:
Professor X wrote:
angus_beef wrote:
If there's anyone out there who believes in anorexia and don't believe in bigorexia, then you are simply a hypocrite. The guy has 19 inch arms yet still he thinks he's "skinny", this is definitely psychological.
Thats like a girl with every single rib visible yet still she thinks she's fat. This guy is easily over 200lbs and he's definitely not tall from what i can see. I doubt anyone on here who is under 5 10" and over 200 lbs sees themselves as skinny.
You may not consider yourself big and you may still want to make gains and improvement, but i doubt you see yourself as "skinny". If you do then you need help also.
That guy also wants to be on tv.
Maybe so, but i was just addressing the fact that the condition is real. From the comments on this thread it seems like alot of the guys were taking this personal, as though it was directed towards them or targeted at all bodybuilders. I believe thats why a comparison to all sports is being made in an attempt to justify the "label" argument.
It IS directed at bodybuilders. Let me explain something to you, if YOU at your present weight gained 50lbs of solid muscle by this time next year, do you think your self image would match every single pound gained or do you think that self image was ingrained at a much earlier age making mental perception a lagging phenomena in anyone who experiences large physical change?
The person who gets plastic surgery will not walk out of the hospital seeing themselves as the new person immediately. It will take time, maybe years, for them to adapt to the new situation....yet for some reason as it concerns bodybuilding, this is left out of every single discussion in favor of rushing to an "insane" conclusion. |
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davidcox1
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angus_beef wrote:
If there's anyone out there who believes in anorexia and don't believe in bigorexia, then you are simply a hypocrite. The guy has 19 inch arms yet still he thinks he's "skinny", this is definitely psychological.
Thats like a girl with every single rib visible yet still she thinks she's fat. This guy is easily over 200lbs and he's definitely not tall from what i can see. I doubt anyone on here who is under 5 10" and over 200 lbs sees themselves as skinny.
You may not consider yourself big and you may still want to make gains and improvement, but i doubt you see yourself as "skinny". If you do then you need help also.
This guy obviously has a problem. In my case, just because I want to be bigger doesn't mean I think I'm abnormal (too small). I'm motivated to excel, to get bigger, but I don't have "bigorexia".
The problem with discovering people who think like this guy is that everyone who wants to get bigger is then accused of having this disorder. My wife thinks I suffer from bigorexia, but I don't--I know I'm bigger than most, and I want to get even bigger.
I'm a bodybuilder if you want to label it. Don't tell me I have a disorder just because I'm motivated to add more size than a normal person. |
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