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Body Integrity Identity Disorder
(redirected from Self-amputation)

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Body Integrity Identity Disorder
A mental disorder in which a person wants to live as an amputee, which is often accompanied by the desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs. The typical person with BIID is a white middle-aged male.


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There's no glamour involved in killing animals for their fur; only electrocution, drowning, strangling, poisoning, stomping, gassing, beating, skinning alive and self-amputation.
His covert desire for self-amputation also complicated his admission to the hospital from the emergency department: He was improperly admitted to the inpatient neurology ward and not to the general surgery ward, because it was thought that his cellulitis might be a rare complication of GBS.
This fortunate combination of fat storage towards the tail base and the usual site of self-amputation provides a plausible explanation for how the defensive strategy of tail shedding and the storage of energy reserves in the tail can coexist in the metallic skink, and probably in other Lizards as well.
 
 
 
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