When Fitness Becomes A Fixation: Why More Men Are Slipping Into Bigorexia, What’s The Mental Health Cost?
Last Updated:February 11, 2026, 08:00 IST Unlike body dysmorphic disorder which can focus on perceived flaws, muscle dysmorphia narrows in on muscularity itself, creating what some clinicians call ‘reverse anorexia’ The behavioural symptoms of bigorexia are parallel to those seen in other eating disorders, but the focus is on muscularity …