Bizarre Disorder Makes People Want to Sever Their Own Limbs

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Bizarre Disorder Makes People Want to Sever Their Own Limbs

Discover Magazine
8/25/2008

Many doctors don't even know how to classify such a strange phenomenon. Those lobbying for its inclusion as a mental disorder compare it to Gender Identity Disorder, in which people get sex changes because they feel out of place in their natural body.  But performing a sex change operation is one thing, and amputating a healthy limb is quite another.