Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Jerry - 11 January 2009
There has been a recent discussion on a Yahoo! group that elicited a post I thought really would benefit from appearing here. With Jerry’s permission, I am posting it here, preceded by the comment/question that prompted his post.
Sean Influenced By Other Transabled Individuals continues »
by Cath - 28 December 2008
It is Friday evening and I am sitting in my lovely sleek Ti-Lite ZRA looking at the blank page on my word processor and wondering where to start. It’s not like me to be stuck for words – I am a linguist by training, if not these days by profession. Friends would laugh at my unaccustomed inarticulacy, but then they don’t know that I am here and I may never get round to telling them, though I would dearly love to some day.
Coming Out continues »
by Ada - 24 December 2008
As you know, I’ve been seeing a therapist. I did NOT start seeing him again to discuss or attempt to treat my BIID, as he cannot treat that. My BIID is related to some of the other issues I need to work on, and therefore it comes up. I contacted him again primarily because my anxiety had become nearly unmanageable.
Arguing Semantics With my Therapist continues »
by Sophie - 16 October 2008
I’m at a stage in my life now where I’ve been actively aware of my transabledness for at least two years. I’ve considered talking to a doctor in the past about BIID but I’ve always been too scared thinking he wouldn’t understand and I’d end up going on the defensive trying to justify a problem I don’t understand myself. This blog entry is partly inspired by Sean’s recent attempts with doctors, GPs and Therapists.
I want to talk! continues »
by Sean - 13 March 2007
Another session with my therapist today. As usual, kinda hesitant, thinking "What’s the point?". But I keep going, because each time it turns out that there are a few insights that come out of it. Today, I put into words the fact that my plate is over-filled with three major issues: transabled stuff, depression stuff, and relationship trouble. It’s nothing new, but putting it that way really seems to clarify the issue for me, in some way. And the other thing was something my therapist mentionned just before the session was ending. She asked me if I was perhaps stuck at the bargaining stage of the "stages of grief".
Stuck at the bargaining stage continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.