The Psychological Effects of Using Steriods Anabolic Steriods. What are they? Where do they come from? Why are they used? From amateurs to pros, from body builders to football players and every sport in between, Steriods, or "roids" as they are referred to, have been in the circle of athletes since the 1950’s. Is it vanity that drives athletes to use steriods? Do they understand the end results from the abuse of "roids"? What psychological …showed first 75 words of 1250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1250 total…want bigger, better and more . If we cannot control our competitive nature, self love, ego and vanity and if society, as a whole, doesn’t change the way it demands and rewards the "body beautiful", and if people cannot learn to be the best they can be, physically as well as psychologically, without performance enhancing drugs, there will always be the desire to achieve the perfect body no matter what the physical or psychological cost.