Parents today are generally aware of mental health conditions that relate to body image, including common disorders like ...

Below, experts share how it manifests, risk factors for developing the disorder, and what those affected should know about it. “Bigorexia is a layperson’s term for what professionals call muscle ...

Body dysmorphia is a disorder that affects both men and women ... Guys often feel like they need to be big and muscular in ...

Kyle Ganson is a University of Toronto assistant professor in social work who studies muscle dysmorphia, a body image-related disorder that is common among men. (Mike Cole/CBC - image credit) ...

To assess muscle dysmorphia, researchers used the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory (MDDI), a 13-item questionnaire measuring symptoms related to the drive for muscular size, appearance ...

This behaviour, if allowed to grow into an obsession, can lead to a body dysmorphic disorder dubbed as “muscle dysmorphia” or “bigorexia”, experts warn. Warped self-view Body dysmorphic ...

The American Psychological Association defines muscle dysmorphia as This condition often leads to excessive exercising, steroid abuse and eating disorders, according to the APA. Wassenaar explains ...

Muscle dysmorphia is a subcategory of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) which has been defined as a mental health condition in which you can’t stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or ...

Like Billie Eilish, writer Millie Milliken has Body Dysmorphic Disorder or BDD. She shares her experiences of living with body dysmorphia for the first time. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD ...

Money dysmorphia is a negative but unrealistic assessment of your personal finance position. Symptoms of money dysmorphia include obsessive earning, money hoarding and negative shopping habits.

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

Parents and experts are sounding the alarm about unregulated anabolic steroid use happening as a result of the pressure young men face to reach a certain ideal body type. Studies also suggest a ...