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2008-11-07 Down Under

Cutting off healthy limbs OK, says Australian Dr.

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Posted by Oztralian 2008-11-07 08:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 why not get two of them together and have them swap?

Posted by ed 2008-11-07 09:17|| 2008-11-07 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe someone can explain to me why this condition is not simply a more extreme version of the condition that causes homosexuality and trans-gendered?

Aren't they all variations on "body integrity identity disorder"?

Posted by AlanC 2008-11-07 09:49|| 2008-11-07 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 You could try to cure the disorder if you were any kind of psychiatrist at all.
I assume these people would be crippled and need benefits for the rest of their lives in any case.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-07 11:14|| 2008-11-07 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 A form of Munchausen Syndrome?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-07 11:24|| 2008-11-07 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 In the SF movie "Aeon Flux" you could get "Body modifiation, one character had her feet replaced with a second set of hands, after getting over the "Yuck" factor, it's not really a bad idea.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-11-07 11:54|| 2008-11-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 start with the neck, k?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-07 12:31|| 2008-11-07 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll become a cyborg.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-07 13:09|| 2008-11-07 13:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd go for the brain stem first

Posted by Angoger Black9540 2008-11-07 13:34|| 2008-11-07 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 And we all thought BDS was bad.

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-07 13:36|| 2008-11-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#10 This happened a decade or more ago down in South America. A new surgeon at an insane asylum where there was four people with this rare condition. They were basket cases, totally unable to function, and any number of therapies and drugs had been tried on them without success.

After extensive discussion and argument lasting many months, he removed a healthy leg from each of them.

Two completely normalized and were happy, and were returned to their families. Two wanted additional amputations, but one of the two felt he could live without it, so after extended observation, he was allowed to leave as well. The fourth's condition was improved far beyond what it had been.

It created a huge controversy in that country, as well.

Importantly, such victims often have to be confined, or they will repeatedly attempt to amputate their own, or each others limbs, or most commonly among men, their testicles.

Finally, because of the Internet, people with this condition are learning about each other and networking. This reinforces and aggravates their desire for amputation. Some castraters especially have removed the testicles of many men.

Three of them were arrested in NC just two years ago.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-07 15:23|| 2008-11-07 15:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Dang! Commodore Frank beat me to the snarky comment! Foiled again....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-07 16:40|| 2008-11-07 16:40|| Front Page Top

#12 These people would give an arm and a leg to feel normal.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-11-07 16:59|| 2008-11-07 16:59|| Front Page Top

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