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2005-10-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Craving for amputation is more complex than once thought, researchers say

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-18 07:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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">AlanC 2005-10-18 09:23|| 2005-10-18 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Can we recruit these folks to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to work on bomb search & disposal teams?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-10-18 09:37|| 2005-10-18 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I blame truncated DNA.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-18 12:14|| 2005-10-18 12:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-18 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I believe the medical term for this is "batshit crazy."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-10-18 16:40|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-10-18 16:40|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL Barb!

Posted by Simon Bar Sinister 2005-10-18 18:27|| 2005-10-18 18:27|| Front Page Top

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