Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), or Body Integrity Dysphoria, is a rare psychological condition characterized by an intense, lifelong desire to become physically disabled (e.g., amputee, paraplegic) because of a belief that a specific body part does not belong. Symptoms include severe distress, acting as if disabled, and risks of self-harm, often stemming from a discrepancy between the brain’s body map and physical reality.

I’ve recently stumbled upon such disorder’s existance, and in some ways it seems similar to gender dysphoria. It supposedly cannot be cured by therapy nor anti depressants. The way it manifests is really similar to how GD does, so I’m curious if it stems from similar malfunctions in different regions of the brain on a biological basis.

I’ve also recently saw some online comments under a video about BIID, and the way that people reacted were similar to how transphobes or cissoids do. I feel like it gives a perspective on how cissoids might perceive us. Probably not literally in the same way, but coming from the same background of lack of understanding. They literally cannot understand what they didn’t experience, just like we can’t understand BIID in the way BIID people do.

Sorry if too off topic from trans issues, or too truscum, but I want some actual discussion here. Not a troll post.

  • Loose_Sandwich9217
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    10 days ago

    I mean I don’t think they’ll “get better” I think distress management is a better solution than making someone a perminently disabled and incapable of functioning

    Also anorexia is treatable yes but that doesn’t mean everyone can get better. Sometimes treatment just isn’t effective. As I said in my other comment courts have literally allowed anorexics to starve themselves before because treatment was futile and they were “utterly defeated by the condition”, to quote the judge in one case.

    • MsYashM
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      10 days ago

      yea what does distress management mean here, what practical solution are you telling them to consider? dbt skills? ssris? antipsychotics? suicide? youre saying the term distress management but that’s quite vague, and i doubt you have some solution that nobody has considered yet

      also you’re saying that the person can function while having the leg and that amputating is will make them no longer able to function, but that’s not true, they are functional in the same way a repper is functional, and without treatment will try to amputate the limb by themselves, some people have amputated their body parts bc doctors wouldn’t do it and their biid was fixed, nothing except amputation has worked so far, and in the few cases im which amputation was tried, their biid was fixed

      • Loose_Sandwich9217
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        10 days ago

        Yeah like all those things, it’s not a "solution’ it’s management

        Also reppers literally are functional??? They’re just mentally ill (and have treatment that doesn’t render them unable to function)

        Also not all of them try to do it themselves in the same way that not all trans people try to do diy orchis

        • MsYashM
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          10 days ago

          i mean im talking about the equivalent of people who would do a diy orchi, but even those who wouldn’t don’t deserve to suffer

          • Loose_Sandwich9217
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            10 days ago

            Well no they don’t deserve to but they also don’t deserve to be given a life ruining disability as “treatment” either