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| Craving for amputation is more complex than once thought, researchers say |
| 2005-10-18 |
| Only one word : "freaky". |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #6 LOL Barb! |
| Posted by: Simon Bar Sinister 2005-10-18 18:27 |
| #5 I believe the medical term for this is "batshit crazy." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-10-18 16:40 |
| #4 This is a really deep psychosis. About a year or two ago, in South America, Argentina or Brazil I believe, their medical community was rattled by a strange event. A doctor at a major mental hospital was "given" four patients, all with this desire for amputation, that were "basket cases", unresponsive to any therapy, non-functional, and all suffering from deep mental anguish for years. Several other prominent psychiatrists had given up, so after consultations, he brought in a surgeon who removed one leg from each of them. They normalized overnight. Fully functional and happy, they no longer had *any* reason to be institutionalized, and after considerable analysis were allowed to return to their families. Their medical community was distraught, and no resolution has, to my knowledge, come from it. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-10-18 12:29 |
| #3 I blame truncated DNA. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-10-18 12:14 |
| #2 Can we recruit these folks to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to work on bomb search & disposal teams? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2005-10-18 09:37 |
| #1 In all seriousness, how is this any different than wanting to undergo a sex-change operation? Cut off a limb, cut off a penis or boobs, isn't all the same sort of mental maladjustment? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2005-10-18 09:23 |