Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Sean - 10 June 2010
Over the last 6 or 8 months, I’ve had a weird feeling I couldn’t quite verbalise. It was not a pleasant feeling. In the last few days, I have been able to verbalise it – I don’t see surgery in my future. And it’s deflating me.
Surgery Is Not On My Horizon continues »
by Peter - 18 May 2010
At last I find myself in a situation where I can pretend full-time, being in the process of moving to a place quite far from where I have been for the past year or so.
Pretending Full-time continues »
by Sean - 3 April 2010
I keep adocating in favour of surgery as a way to treat BIID. I point out that there is no evidence or indication that anything else than surgery works to really treat BIID. But that does not meant that I think surgery is the way for everyone.
Surgery – Not For Everyone continues »
by Sean - 28 March 2010
A friend of mine who knows of my struggle with BIID finished an email to me by saying "I can’t make it better. Wish I could." And I started thinking of all the people who’ve told me they wished they could help. And the majority of these people don’t, and won’t, help. Can they really not help? Really?
They Wish They Could Help Our BIID continues »
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?
A Dilemma For Surgeons continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.