Neurotic?
by Dan - 9 October 2010
I was thinking about the changes in me since surgical treatment of BIID. I feel normal now. If “normal” people enjoy life as much as I do now, I sure got cheated out of a lot of life.
Neurotic? continues »
A Change in Perspective
by Chloe - 6 September 2010
Almost two years ago I included BIID in my laundry list of insanities. I mean, you have to be insane to actually want to be paralysed, right? I said then that BIID feels like a mental illness; but it’s not at all the way I view things now.
A Change in Perspective continues »You Can’t Tell Just By Looking
by Sean - 6 May 2010
I recently caught a fascinating documentary on TV. It was called “How Mad Are You?” by Horizon, and originally aired in 2008 on the BBC. It doesn’t discuss BIID, but it certainly made for a fascinating experiment.
You Can’t Tell Just By Looking continues »Treating BIID – A Clinic
by Sean - 10 April 2010
Claire just pointed me to the website of a “mental health clinic dedicated primarily to evaluation and treatment of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and similar body image disturbances“. The fascinating thing is, they list Body Integrity Identity Disorder as one of the condition they work with…
Treating BIID – A Clinic continues »A Dilemma For Surgeons
by Sean - 19 March 2010
Wikipedia defines Dilemma as: "a problem offering at least two solutions or possibilities, of which none are practically acceptable". Which would a surgeon pick for a patient: Death, or Surgery?
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