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Originally Posted by Claire_C
Jillo, you must have missed the part where I stated I've seen three mental health professionals, all of whom told me that there was no treatment for BIID. I have also seen a neurologist who believes it has a neurological cause: a problem in the parietal lobe of the brain concerned with body image. I have also been in email contact with two other mental health professionals who have done studies on BIID who have no treatments to suggest. Your suggestion to find help is great - please give me the name and phone number of the mental health professional that you recommend who has had success treating this condition.
I am sorry but BIID does exist. Do some research. When it shows up in the DSM-V you'll know. The editor of the next version of the DSM, Dr. Michael First, was the person who actually coined the term Body Integrity Identity Disorder and has done one study on it and is about to conduct a second. You can Google that and find out in 1-minute's research to see that it's true. I'm afraid I'll have to take Dr. First's word over yours, until you at least provide your credentials.
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Then you are seeing the wrong metnal health professionals. And if the disorder does indeed have a neurological cause, then amputating a limb will not stop the obsession, as it originates in the pathology within the parietal lobe. The parietal lobe would still be intact, therefore, the obsession would recurr.
The parietal lobe is responsible for unilateral neglect. That is an entirely different syndrome. The next version of the DSM has yet to be published, and it will be some time before it is published. What you describe, as I have indicated in a previous post, falls into the category of body dysmorphic disorder. That diagnosis is normally made when one seeks out excessive plastic surgery in order to correct what they perceive as unnatractive in their own appearance, despite the fact that their physical appearance is normal. They are simply unable to perceive their appearance as normal, and therefore, seek to change it. However, as your wish is not to change your appearance, but to actually engage in a procedure that would render you disabled for the sake of being disabled, it is quite likely, as I said prior, that you have several concomittant mental disorders at once.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that these health profssionals recognize this disorder, yet have no recommendations for treatment.
And if you want my credientials, they are LPCC, CRC, NSC.