What is Bigorexia? Diagnosis and Treatment Approaches

Bigorexia is a disease that affects especially bodybuilding athletes. These individuals are obsessed about being inadequately musculer. Some of the complications of this disease are excessive compelling sports, excessive time spent in the gym, spending a lot of money on sports supplements, abnormal diet and even steroid-style substance use. As the popularity of bodybuilding sports increases in the 21st century, the number of patients also increases. Although many studies have been conducted on the Anorexia Nevroza due to the body image concerns of female patients, in the literature very little space bigorexia given. This review aims to increase awareness of bigorexia, contains the synthesis of available literature information