A real addiction
By definition, bigorexia is addiction to sport. Beyond simple passion, it is an addiction to the excessive practice of a sport, which can go so far as to cause health problems. Saturday June 11, 2022, Maria Hejnar, clinical psychologist-psychoanalyst, explained this illness in more detail to Femme Actuelle. The specialist explains that the activities concerned are very often endurance sports such as running, cycling or swimming, and sometimes also bodybuilding. “Psychic tensions, anxieties, problems seem to disappear in a feeling of well-being which follows intense exercise. But the effect only lasts for a while and the need to start again comes quickly. The subject therefore devotes more and more time to his addiction, to the detriment of other activities,” explains the psychologist.
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