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There is actually a psychiatric disorder (from an Oliver Sacks book) where the patient wakes up one day with a terrible conviction that their own healthy limbs
by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There is actually a psychiatric disorder (from an Oliver Sacks book)
where the patient wakes up one day with a terrible conviction that
their own healthy limbs are not theirs, and with an overwhelming urge
to amputate them. Sometimes it's so distressing that amputation is
actually done.
This kind of happened to the US.
- xnx 2y agoGreat analogy! "Body integrity identity disorder (BIID), or body integrity dysphoria, is a mental health condition where you feel that a limb or healthy body part shouldn’t be part of your body." https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/body-integrity-identity-disorder-biid https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/body-integrit...