Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Sean - 10 November 2007
Dr. Michael First is conducting a follow-up study on his original study that was published a few years ago, “Desire for amputation of a limb: paraphilia, psychosis, or a new type of identity disorder”. As this is a follow-up to his study, it specifically targets those people who have a need for an impairment different than amputation. The following paragraph is written by Dr. First:
New BIID Study continues »
by Sean - 9 November 2007
A few weeks ago, there was a heated discussion on a discussion forum, about Body Integrity Identity Disorder. The forum focuses primarily on people who are deaf. I suspect many of the participants consider themselves Deaf rather than just deaf (capital D vs. regular d). The thread starter referred to BIID as something creepy and shocking and disgusting. The majority of participants felt the same way, but there were a few people who came to get a better understanding of what BIID means for us.
Deafies don’t wanna be cured, why should we? continues »
by Sean - 8 November 2007
Depression is a strange beast. There a "line", above which one is not (so much) depressed, and below which one is indeed in the dumps. This is a bit of a base-line. It’s not to say that if I find myself below that baseline I don’t have happy moments, nor that if I find myself above it there aren’t "blue" moments. But it seems a fairly defining line indeed, as hard as it is to define and as fluid as it is.
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