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Originally Posted by jillio
What you are referring to is not diagnosable under DSM-IV (TR) criteria. The closes the DMS comes to diagnositic criteria for a disorder such as the one you describe is body dysmorphic disorder. However, the disorder,as described does not meet all of the criteria necessary. Thee is also conversion disorder, but neither does this meet the criteria for conversion disorder. Actually, this would fall more into the category of unsepcified personality disorder. If an individual truly want to be disabled, then having a mental illness certainly puts them into the category of disabled. However, as mental illness is also an invisable disability, these individuals seem to be more concerned with having a disablility that it visable and recognizable as a way to manipulate others and gain attention for themselves. These are very disturbed individuals. Threatening harm to oneself by creating a disability in oneself is sufficient grounds to commit.
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BIID will likely be in the DSM-V when it is released. Beyond that... There is no help out there. We all try meds, we all try therapy, often with multiple different therapists over the years, multiple therapy modalities, lots of different meds. Few people have found anything that helps. If you know something that helps, I'm listening. Other than that, we do the only things that each of us can find that helps (and therapists are supportive of this more than you seem to think, given the options available).