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Psychologist blinds woman with drain cleaner - because she wanted to be disabled
Mirror (UK) ^ | 1 Oct 2015 | Tom Midlane

Posted on 10/01/2015 1:30:05 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

For most people becoming blind would be a living nightmare - but for Jewel Shuping it was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream.

Jewel has Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled.

Her need to lose her sight was so strong that in 2006 she decided to blind herself - by having a sympathetic psychologist pour DRAIN CLEANER into her eyes.

According to Jewel, her fascination with blindness began early in childhood.

She said: "When I was young my mother would find me walking in the halls at night, when I was three or four years old.

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Determined to make her dream a reality, Jewel found a psychologist willing to help her become blind ... The psychologist put in numbing eyedrops - acquired by Jewel during a special visit to Canada - and then a couple of drops of drain cleaner in each eye.

"But all I could think was 'I am going blind, it is going to be okay."...

Jewel, 30, from North Carolina, said: "When I woke up the following day I was joyful...

"I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth.

Jewel originally told her family it had been an accident, but they eventually found out the truth - causing both her mother and sister to cut contact.

"When there's nobody around you who feels the same way, you start to think that you're crazy. But I don't think I'm crazy, I just have a disorder."

Jewel is now sharing her story to help raise public awareness of BIID and to encourage people with the condition to seek professional help.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: biid; brain; crazy; disorder; disorders; mentalillness; psychology; shuping
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Very similar to the transsexual disorder: maiming a healthy body to make it conform to a sick mind.

The psychologist who did the maiming "for" this woman should be in jail. As should all the surgeons who have performed genital mutilation on mentally ill people who want to "transition" into a person of the other sex.

1 posted on 10/01/2015 1:30:05 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Absolutely beyond sick.


2 posted on 10/01/2015 1:32:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Sounds like a great psychologist. What’s the name? Is he/she/it taking new clients? Shyeesh! Some humans never cease to amaze me as to their insanity.


3 posted on 10/01/2015 1:33:08 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

She should have just closed her eyes and said she was blind. Then everybody would be obliged to pretend it was so. Isn’t that how things work now?


4 posted on 10/01/2015 1:33:09 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Mrs. Don-o

you are 100 percent right!!! body dysmophic disorder.

you think a leg or an arm doesn’t belong on you and these people go to south america to get them removed because it is illegal here.

why is castrating or giving hormones done? if it’s a disease, treat it. dont feed into it

this country has gone mad with prisons paying for sex changes.

geesh


5 posted on 10/01/2015 1:33:18 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Interesting point. I tend to agree with you.

How about treating the disorder?????


6 posted on 10/01/2015 1:33:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Main Thread

 

 

Woman Says She Is Happier Than Ever After Fulfilling Lifelong Wish of Becoming Blind

Thursday, October 01, 2015 12:46:05 PM      · by nickcarraway      · 66 replies
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7 posted on 10/01/2015 1:34:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Our White House is actively promoting this insanity as something to be admired and protected.


8 posted on 10/01/2015 1:36:08 PM PDT by Williams
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good thing she didn’t want to be quadriplegic, would have been messy...


9 posted on 10/01/2015 1:39:23 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“Absolutely beyond sick.”

There are people who feel they should be minus a limb. It’s a particular limb, not just any. PET scans of their brains reveal irregularities in the region for feeling or controlling that limb. So, sick, undoubtedly. But probably more physically sick than people who want their penis cut off. (Those people tend to commit suicide in spectacular percentages compared to those who don’t have their penis cut off.)

I doubt anybody in previous centuries ever acted on their feelings simply because surviving was so much more difficult. Surely anybody who really worked for a living would need all their limbs and thus ignore whatever drives today’s mentally ill. But today most people can survive without working at all. So they get to indulge their craziness.


10 posted on 10/01/2015 1:39:29 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: hal ogen

Hannibal Lecter?


11 posted on 10/01/2015 1:40:29 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I have a disorder too. This is a violent dislike of paying taxes to support people like this on welfare. I think my disorder should be accommodated as well.


12 posted on 10/01/2015 1:41:18 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: dp0622

Oliver Sacks (a fraud in my opinion) wrote extensively about this. People who refused to recognize an arm or a leg. I don’t think he recommended this shrink’s solution, though.


13 posted on 10/01/2015 1:47:31 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

What a shame. She could have gotten the attention she craved just by declaring herself a lesbian.


14 posted on 10/01/2015 1:48:38 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

She sought professional help and the professional was a fraud.
This is a mental illness akin to lopping off a weewee and saying “I’m a girl!”


15 posted on 10/01/2015 1:49:33 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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Psychologist blinds woman with drain cleaner - because she wanted to be disabled

And this is different from "Transgendering" someone how?

16 posted on 10/01/2015 1:49:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Kirkwood
Kirkwood mad a good point earlier:

You believe her story about a psychologist blinding her? She’s insane. Why would you believe anything this person says?

17 posted on 10/01/2015 1:51:15 PM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Idiot could have gone blind by donating her eyes to people not wanting to be blind.


18 posted on 10/01/2015 1:52:13 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: hal ogen

Probably a sadist who gets a kick out of harming mentally ill people. Just like physicians who commit “assisted suicide” and get a kick out of playing God.


19 posted on 10/01/2015 1:55:59 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself." -James Madison)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

How is this different than if he told her she was a man and started cutting parts off.


20 posted on 10/01/2015 1:58:28 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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