by Sean - 14 August 2008
As regular readers will know, I have been dealing with a "pretty bad patch" of BIID attack for a long time now. There are peaks and trophs, obviously. Yet it seems like my trophs are intense enough to be someone else’s peak. I don’t say this out of a sense of self-pity, it is a simple statement of fact. There have been some periods in my life since my teens where BIID has left me mostly quiet, if not entirely alone. But the more time goes by, the longer the BIID works on me, and the more intense these "attacks" get. And when I am in the grips of a strong BIID attack, I am quite disabled. I venture to say that I’m more impaired by BIID than I would be by being paraplegic.
BIID is disabling all right! continues »
by Dante - 28 June 2008
Awhile back I had a conversation with someone else I know that also deals with BIID. Often that person is the one who spurs me to write as I have. Once again, that person told me that I should explain my unqiue sitation…
A Little Bit of Everything continues »
by Sean - 28 March 2007
A recent post I made on this site and a Yahoo! discussion group prompted a lot of discussion and brought up the nearly age old question of “Does BIID include anyone who wants a different condition than being an amputee?”. I maintain that it doesn’t matter what condition is sought, we all suffer from BIID. Some agree. Others disagree. Others yet are quite vehement in their refusal to have BIID include anything else than “amputation”. And so I decided to go to the source. I emailed Dr. Michael First, who coined the term Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
An email exchange with Dr. First about BIID. continues »
by Sean - 11 February 2007
It pops in my mind out of nowhere, shoving existing thoughts aside and making itself known. How I wish it was different, but it is my reality, day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, year after bloody year, decades going.
It taints everything it touches continues »