Talk:Muscle dysmorphia

message: Vigorexia redirects to this article. Why? --Abdull (talk) 22:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That appears to be the Spanish word for "Bigorexia." I'm digging around to see what the procedure is for deleting a redirect. Hertzyscowicz (talk) 19:55, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: See the Redirects For Discussion entry on the topic Hertzyscowicz (talk) 11:05, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vigorexia? 

message: Society needs to start placing more value on the intrinsic worth of the individual and less on external appearance. Once it does not take a particularly strong person to separate how they look from how they feel, dysmorphia will decrease in frequency. 
I believe adding in a prevention section not only adds more information to the article, but changes the article as a whole. Instead of being discussed as a matter of course of psychology, we have to recognize that we created the disorder as a society and it is dually within our grasp to make it come to an end. Independent sources have verified the cultural contribution we've made to the disorder.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samgldstn (talk • contribs) 00:20, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately it's not for Wikipedia to advocate any particular position, even in the vaguest terms by saying "Society" needs to do something, so I have undone your edit. If there are sources on this then something can be added but it needs to be more neutral and based on the sources, which should be added as references.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 01:24, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

text: As the above response indicates, this encyclopedia is not for activism in the name of public health or personal health.  If authoritative, reliable sources discuss prevention, then that can be mentioned.  But until there is a sizable campaign to prevent muscle dysmorphia, there is no more to say in such a campaign.  As it is, the article is too subjective and opinionated.  Although edits after mine have added valuable information, they are generally written in the manner of a lengthy book on the topic, and the statements are extremely redundant. —  Occurring (talk) 00:29, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prevention 

message: Until my edit just now, the lead paragraph implied that muscle dysmorphia was unlike anorexia nervosa in being hard to spot because sufferers don't look unhealthy (paraphrasing). I've edited it to remove the implication that anorexia is obvious - both muscle dysmorphia and anorexia nervosa are mental disorders which have a substantial effect on the sufferer's life before any physical changes become extreme, or even apparent. It is unhelpful and incorrect to perpetuate the idea that you can tell someone suffers from a mental disorder by looking at them.135.245.248.77 (talk) 15:42, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead did not suggest that mental illness is obvious by looking at someone, and so your concern, however good, is misplaced.  Nor did the lead suggest that persons experiencing anorexia nervosa immediately show obvious physical signs, or that the disorder is only physical.  The lead said something different: that the usually healthy appearance associated with muscle dysmorphia especially masks this disorder.  Underweight and malnourishment are indeed signs of anorexia nervosa.  Is normal appearance or muscular appearance a sign of muscle dysmorphia? — Occurring (talk) 00:21, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
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