is there an opposite of anorexia so people think they are really thin so they keep eating and end up huge?...just wondering!
2007-01-22 03:25:23 · 27 answers · asked by x.tamsin.x@btinternet.com 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Sure! It's called gluttony....
2007-01-22 03:57:49 · answer #1 · answered by Soldier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bigorexia currently has no clinical guideline, but it has been described by psychiatrists as the opposite to Anorexia. It can typically be found in body building circles, and can be known as Muscle Dysmorphia. The sufferer worries that they are too small, and will go to any length to increase muscle mass.
Researchers have put together this set of criteria:
-The person is preoccupied with the idea that their body is not lean and muscular. They spend long hours lifting weights and pay excessive attention to diet.
-This preoccupation causes major distress or impairs the person's social or professional life. The person may forego important social, work-related or recreational activities. They may avoid situations where their body will be exposed. The person continues to work out or diet even when they know it could hurt their health or well-being.
-The focus of the person's concerns is on being too small or not muscular enough, as opposed to concerns about being fat.
2007-01-22 11:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
considering that anorexia is an abnormal loss of the appetite for food, then obesity is surely the opposite in some way? SOME not all obese people are that way due to having an excessive appetite for food and thus are extremely overweight
2007-01-22 11:36:24 · answer #3 · answered by Graycode 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a condition that some people have where they never feel full ever! I dont know what it is called but there was a documentary about it on bbc not long a go, they can literally eat them selves to death if they were left alone, it must be horrible never feeling like you had ate anything.
My friend is quite chubby and jokes that she has bulemic amnesia, she pigs out on everything but forgets to throw up lol
2007-01-22 11:30:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
BIGOREXIA is the opposite of anorexia. Basically its an obsession about being muscular or having the perfect body. :)
2007-01-23 09:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mongrawl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah its called I "HYPER-GORGISM". Caused by the the gobbling aurefis'S (THE MOUTH) incrEased sensistivey for food. it contains an organ called the £tongue" which becomes greedy and tells thebarin to stop ignor all the fodd that gets into the stomach. hee hee hee . It is also commonly known as a greedy B4stard.
2007-01-22 11:35:46 · answer #6 · answered by singing_saagar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there isn't anything like that documented. Generally an obese person just doesn't care, they don't look in the mirror and think they are thin.
2007-01-22 11:35:09 · answer #7 · answered by Lisa V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there is but it ends up to the compulsive eating disorder or bulimia...usually happens to skinny girls who realize at some point that they are thin enough and they can eventually stop this way of life and start eating normally and enjoy food but they turn out to become bulimic and depressed..
2007-01-22 11:31:41 · answer #8 · answered by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There has to be, unfortunately for these people, they also have to put up with the stigma of being fat, which leads to depression and a wosening of their situation
2007-01-22 11:37:21 · answer #9 · answered by bee bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a "condition" called Compulsive Overeaters.
2007-01-22 11:45:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
prader willi syndrome - people who have it eat constantly and never feel full. Parents have to lock food away if their child has this syndrome.
2007-01-22 11:34:45 · answer #11 · answered by MinaF 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋