Syndrome of impaired perception of one’s own body

Those with BIID syndrome feel uncomfortable with a part of their body, for example, a limb, and are convinced that removing or immobilizing this part of the body will relieve them of discomfort. People with this syndrome may have a heightened sense of envy for disabled amputees. They can pretend to be amputees with disabilities, both in public and in private. Sufferers of this syndrome feel the above described symptoms of foreignness and unnaturalness. They may try to mutilate themselves by amputating a given limb. In most cases, they are ashamed of their thoughts and can hide them from others, including therapists and health professionals. ^[9] Most of those suffering from BIID are middle-aged men, although this difference is not as great as previously thought. ^[10] Sexual motivation to be or look like a disabled amputee is called apotemophilia . ^{[11] [12]} Apothemophilia should not be confused with acrotomophilia : an attraction to people with amputated limbs. ^[13] Although, there are many people who have experienced one or the other. ^{[14] [9]}

From a medical point of view, the amputation of an “unwanted” limb suffering from BIID is a controversial idea. Since amputation is an irreversible event, the only alternative may be to study phantom limbs and treat the patient from a psychological point of view. ^[15]

Some achieve their dreams by pretending to be disabled amputees; for this they use prostheses and other tools to ease their desire to be alone. Some sufferers of this syndrome communicated with the media or gave telephone interviews to researchers that they resorted to self-amputation of the "extra" limbs, for example, to train her moving, or by damaging the limb so badly that the surgeons had to amputate it. ^[9] However, articles on cases of real self-amputation are rarely found in the medical literature. ^[16] Often an obsession affects one particular limb. A patient may say, for example, that he "does not feel whole" as long as he has a left leg. ^[17] However, BIID does not include amputation alone. Some people suffer from the desire to become paralyzed, blind, deaf, orthopedic devices such as prosthetic legs, etc. Some people pretend that they are amputee disabled using crutches and wheelchairs at home or in public places.

• Body image
• Dysmorphophobia
• Body modifications
• Somatoparaffenia

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