body integrity identity disorder


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body integrity identity disorder

n.
A compulsive desire to lose one or more healthy limbs through amputation. Also called apotemnophilia.
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Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID): An Argumentative Analysis of Why It Should Be Diagnosed in DSM-5.
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html) Body Integrity Identity Disorder , a psychological condition where someone becomes fixated on a perceived physical flaw in their appearance.
Chloe Jennings-White: Woman With Body Integrity Identity Disorder Wants Surgery To Be Paraplegic [PHOTO]
The 57-year-old suffers with a rare condition called Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a rare psychological complaint which means she desperately wants to be paraplegic - paralysed below the waist.
I spend my life in a wheelchair.. pretending that I am paralysed; FROM CHILDHOOD CHLOE HAS WANTED TO BE A PARAPLEGIC SO NOW SHE SPENDS MOST OF HER TIME IN A WHEELCHAIR TO CONTROL HER RARE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION. BY JAMES KNOCK

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