A Probable Culture-Specific Disorder of Pathological Weight Gain: Psychocultural Inversion of Anorexia Nervosa in Southern Morocco, Mauritania, and the Sahel.

We describe a young woman with a compulsive drive to gain weight, characterized by fear of weight loss, distorted body image, and deliberate use of weight-inducing strategies.Her presentation reflects a pathological internalization of culturally valued corpulence, exceeding socially accepted behaviors and associated with psychological distress.This case may represent a probable culture-specific disorder and a psychocultural inversion of anorexia nervosa, highlighting the need for culturally informed diagnostic frameworks.