Comments on: Lust for lacking limbs, (yes, seriously) http://www.streamingmagazine.com/lust-for-lacking-limbs-yes-seriously/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sean O'Connor http://www.streamingmagazine.com/lust-for-lacking-limbs-yes-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Sean O'Connor Sun, 31 May 2009 22:47:46 +0000 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/?p=256#comment-118 @Matthew, the answer to that is that once the person acquires the impairment they needed, they are happy. There have been many people who "did it" and they all say that the only regret they have is to not have done it sooner. @Matthew, the answer to that is that once the person acquires the impairment they needed, they are happy. There have been many people who “did it” and they all say that the only regret they have is to not have done it sooner.

]]> By: Sean O'Connor http://www.streamingmagazine.com/lust-for-lacking-limbs-yes-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Sean O'Connor Sun, 31 May 2009 22:45:34 +0000 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/?p=256#comment-117 Small correction: BIID doesn't only reflect itself in a need to be amputee. Some people, such as myself, need to be paraplegic. Others need to be blind. Others yet need to be deaf. Regarding the DSM, it is not a question of not being *recognised* by the DSM. It has simply not yet been included in it. A big part of that is because the little research about BIID hadn't been done at the time of the last publication of the book. The DSM's own website points out that conditions that are not included in the DSM are still true, real, valid conditions but haven't been included for a variety of reasons. Small correction: BIID doesn’t only reflect itself in a need to be amputee. Some people, such as myself, need to be paraplegic. Others need to be blind. Others yet need to be deaf.

Regarding the DSM, it is not a question of not being *recognised* by the DSM. It has simply not yet been included in it. A big part of that is because the little research about BIID hadn’t been done at the time of the last publication of the book. The DSM’s own website points out that conditions that are not included in the DSM are still true, real, valid conditions but haven’t been included for a variety of reasons.

]]> By: Matthew http://www.streamingmagazine.com/lust-for-lacking-limbs-yes-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Matthew Sun, 31 May 2009 18:54:37 +0000 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/?p=256#comment-116 The one thing that I really wonder about this disorder is what happens after the limb is removed? Is the person essentially normal because the limb that was hindering or bother them is now gone? Or do they move on to a new obsession and a new limb that "needs" to be removed? The one thing that I really wonder about this disorder is what happens after the limb is removed? Is the person essentially normal because the limb that was hindering or bother them is now gone? Or do they move on to a new obsession and a new limb that “needs” to be removed?

]]> By: Perry http://www.streamingmagazine.com/lust-for-lacking-limbs-yes-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Perry Sun, 31 May 2009 18:53:00 +0000 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/?p=256#comment-115 This is where being a doctor would be incredibly difficult. I mean aside from needing know mountains of information and having pressure heeped on you by doing different operations and procedures, you also have to deal with people like this. What do you do? You know that if you don't do it they will simply be back in front of you in a few days (or hours) with a meat cleaver in their arm... This is where being a doctor would be incredibly difficult. I mean aside from needing know mountains of information and having pressure heeped on you by doing different operations and procedures, you also have to deal with people like this. What do you do? You know that if you don’t do it they will simply be back in front of you in a few days (or hours) with a meat cleaver in their arm…

]]> By: Chris http://www.streamingmagazine.com/lust-for-lacking-limbs-yes-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Chris Sun, 31 May 2009 18:51:02 +0000 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/?p=256#comment-114 This is pretty intense. I guess it simply falls in line with a lot of the other disorders out there, but it is odd that it isn't recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders though. I would think that they would be all over this one. This is pretty intense. I guess it simply falls in line with a lot of the other disorders out there, but it is odd that it isn’t recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders though. I would think that they would be all over this one.

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