Currently, within the so-called information society by some, progress and other technologies, there are many disorders that, make matters worse, the developed countries, are proliferating. Some drugs generated by design, others by the stress and the hectic pace of life, which has resulted in an overwhelming wave of cancers. But there are others, in a veiled and tortoise advances are making strides in the small world of sport. Specifically, the gyms. And his greatest disorder, is called vigorexia.
This is considered a mental disorder whose root does not have to be food, but whose pathological component if it matches the body distortion and obsessive preoccupation with the figure.
It would be 1997 when a group digido by psychiatrist Harrison G. Pope of McLean Hospital (Belmont, USA), coined the concept. Today, despite the fact that more and more developments within psychology as well as knowledge on the part of companies, mostly advanced, yet is not recognized as international medical illness.
In the U.S. begins to give a meaningful sample. Nine million may have an emotional disorder whose main problem is the personal distortion. That is, can not be seen as they really are. Although often a kind of pathology, unfortunately, very wedged between the world of women, in this case, men are those who rule the roost.
And is that in many cases, the disorder has a psychological component to the antonym of anorexia, although in some manuals has been considered as male anorexia. The more muscle is achieved, the personal vision is seen as weak as they feel physically unattractive.
