“She began to realise that my body dysmorphia was like dating another person.” The pursuit of muscularity took over his life. And muscle dysmorphia may be on the rise. Not everyone who benches 180kg has muscle dysmorphia. “There’s a saying: ‘Once you step into a gym, you’re forever small,’” says 27-year-old Rich Selby, an amateur bodybuilder from Cardiff. “Except for the bloody drugs.”And that is one of the issues of muscle dysmorphia – you can hide in plain sight.

Source: The Guardian July 17, 2019 05:01 UTC