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To: xzins
There's a psychiatric disorder (I forget the term for it) where people are absolutely convinced that one of their arms or legs is an alien entity rather than a part of their bodies. Some indulge this psychosis by attempting to amputate their arms or legs themselves.

Nobody would think that such a person is fit for military service (or for much of anything else) because he would be an obvious risk and a liability. I fail to see any difference between the level of delusion between the guy who thinks that his arm doesn't belong to him and the guy who thinks that he's a girl in a man's body.

7 posted on 08/01/2017 8:45:44 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Body dysmorphic disorder. And you are right. People go to South America and pay $20,000 to have their arm or leg removed and then come back here and you go on disability. Disability isn’t the reason they do it but it is what they end up on


16 posted on 08/01/2017 8:58:42 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: ek_hornbeck
There's a psychiatric disorder (I forget the term for it) where people are absolutely convinced that one of their arms or legs is an alien entity rather than a part of their bodies.

BIID...Body Integrity Identity Disorder.

37 posted on 08/01/2017 11:15:43 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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