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- Some patients request the amputation of their limb
- Often associated with apotemnophilia, the sexual fixation on becoming an amputee
- Some include the desire to be paraplegic and other physical disabilities under BIID
- Not considered a psychosis
- Commonly compared to Gender Identity Disorder
- Often triggered by sight of amputee
- Symptoms can begin at age 4 or 5
- Nearly always established by puberty
- Few doctors perform elective amputation
- Some patients use prosthetic to make them appear and feel amputated
- Males much more likely to have BIID than females
- Most cases not sexually motivated
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Body Integrity Identity Disorder, or BIID, is a mental disorder which causes the victim to feel as though they would be happier as an amputee. BIID often causes the victim to have strong desires to self-amputate, sometimes resulting in the amputation of a healthy limb. The sufferer often feels incomplete with all four limbs.
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