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I thought that question was in response to wylz. I'm not sure what the point is since whatever I say, you won't believe me. But you have successfully goaded me into answering, the more fool me. So fwiw: My psychologist concurs that I have BIID as she did research once I came to her with...

No fair to keep answering questions after I said I was leaving! ;) Just kidding, I'm happy to answer questions, I just feel silly now. Somatoparaphrenia is caused by a stroke and patients deny that certain body parts belong to them. Somatoparaphrenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The...

Kaitlin your sincere interest in learning more has me back for one last post. There is another document that you might find very interesting: Can vestibular caloric stimulation be used to trea...[Med Hypotheses. 2007] - PubMed Result Can vestibular caloric stimulation be used to treat...

Well, I'm done here. Jillio, you seem to be the epitome of intolerance and closed-mindedness. You did not offer the name of a therapist capable of treating the disorder nor did you comment on the very real fact that the editor of the next DSM is the person who coined the term BIID, which seems...

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...

Many of us had normal childhoods so I don't think it's about having been abused or neglected as a child. That may be something to do with it but it doesn't explain why their are millions of abused/neglected children that don't grow up with BIID. Something else is afoot that goes beyond that...

Yes, that's fine. Maybe that's it. But there's still no way to make the obsession go away, to date. Even if we knew for sure that was the case, we still are stuck with BIID. Because every professional I've ever talked to about it had never heard of it. Because on the BIID discussion...

Hello all. I would like to make a few points that seem to be lost somewhere in this discussion. Body Identity Integrity Disorder is a real illness. It's not Munchausen's (nor by Proxy) and it's not hypochondria. It's an inexplicable desire for disability that in the vast majority of...