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Title: Bizarre Disorder Makes People Want to Sever Their Own Limbs
Post by: Natasha on August 26, 2008, 12:49:29 AM
Post by: Natasha on August 26, 2008, 12:49:29 AM
Bizarre Disorder Makes People Want to Sever Their Own Limbs
Discover Magazine (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/08/25/bizarre-disorder-makes-people-want-to-sever-their-own-limbs/)
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.
Discover Magazine (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/08/25/bizarre-disorder-makes-people-want-to-sever-their-own-limbs/)
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.