Legless

**Vladimir** · 01-29-2007, 18:14

Originally Posted by Xiahou

I fully expect some here to say that removing her legs would cure her.

So would removing her head. That's where the problem lies.

**Fisherking** · 01-29-2007, 18:33

With your health care system does the government, and there by everyone, pick up the tab?

In a perfect world I suppose some one would try to help her out with a good head shrink. But that is no guarantee of a fix. There used to be that little thing about being a danger to your self or others…but we have cut the cord on that one to it would seem.

I guess if she wanted a sure fire quick fix she might try a train track……………………….

**BDC** · 01-29-2007, 19:35

She's ill. People shouldn't be so harsh on ill people, it all has a way of coming back to haunt you.

**BDC** · 01-29-2007, 19:41

Ooops.

**Vladimir** · 01-29-2007, 19:53

Originally Posted by BDC

Ooops.

I think that double posting is the sign of a disorder.

**yesdachi** · 01-29-2007, 20:01

Should Universal Health Care pay for the procedure?

**Kanamori** · 01-29-2007, 20:19

Well, I suppose it is possible that she got this entrenched in her mind since childhood and finds accepting her two legs as impossible...

There's no way I wouldn't call this a mental illness... but the possibility remains that she developed the insane desire and maybe the best way to fix it is to take them off... Ultimately, I think a person's body is in their own domain, so long as the action in question only effects them.

I say maybe, because I have no idea about how effective psychological or psychiatric treatments may be and whether or not some other underlying mental illness, aside from what they call BIID, prevents her from reasonably changing her mind.

Could nerves in the leg, or even those correlated in the brain, be messed up and she actually has some reason to think something is wrong with her legs?

I think BIID will stay taboo until people get together and bring it out. A hundred years ago, it was taboo to be gay in many societies, and 50 years ago the idea of transsexuals was abhorrent to most. I have tried to make the condition more understood but it is difficult to get a case out in the open by yourself.

The real issue isn't how accepted it is as being normal, but more about how accepted the idea is that she can't reasonably change -- I don't mean actually using reason but how likely she would be to ever change -- her mind about her legs.

**Vladimir** · 01-29-2007, 20:58

This all reminds me of the tale of some boy (child) who thought he was female so much that he wanted a sex change. The usual shyness about being naked around boys when he was younger evolved into genital mutilation in high school. One time he shoved a metal wire up his penis multiple times hoping that it would have to be removed. It sounds very much like dry ice lady.

**Papewaio** · 01-29-2007, 22:04

Originally Posted by yesdachi

Should Universal Health Care pay for the procedure?

If it is a mental problem:
Then the full spectrum of mental health resources should be engaged... which is compared to physical health minute at best... for some reason mental health still has a stigma about it which includes a lack of resources devoted to it. Mental health issues should get higher priority then life style choices (recreational drugs and sports for instance).