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Originally Posted by Kaitin
My roommate read this thread (more than me) and we talked. Now I wonder about BIID and anorexia. Doesn't people with anorexia think they are too fat? But no surgeon would do gastric bypass or give diet pills. Isn't anorexia a problem about body images? Are anorexia and BIID similar?
Thank you to any replies.
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ClaireC: Sorry - I didn't see your post. What is "somatoparaphrenia"? Does the article you quote mean that BIID is from brain damage? Also I had caloric testing I had caloric testing for dizziness - hot or cold water in ears, right? You had caloric testing for 24 hours? How?
I will read your blog. Thank you for your answer, link and patient reply.
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Somatoparaphrenia is the result of traumatic injury resulting in damage to the parietal lobe in the brain. It can be diagnosed by CAT scan indicating the damaged area in the brain. It is not a mental illness. It is a neurological disorder with a biological casue. It cannot be compared to the desire to become disabled. If BIID were indeed caused by irregularities in the parietal lobe, those irregularites could be determined upon neurological examination.