Blog Post 3

I would propose for people with BIID to get therapy. I think therapy may eventually be defective after a while. It is strange to me that this condition has a specific demographic of people. Someone choosing to be disabled is a foreign concept to me.  I am also very shocked because usually people want to be the opposite. There was a part of the article that mentioned a french man holding a gun to the doctor and demanding his leg be cut off. It showed me how serious and desperate these people are about their desire. They are willing to risk jail time or go to far lengths to amputate themselves. The beginning of the article when the guy named josh was finding ways to rid himself of his arm. He even tried to hold his arm out while driving in hopes of getting side- swept. I do not understand BIID because I do not have BIID. Hopefully one day we can all learn to accept and accommodate people regardless of the lifestyle they choose to lead. And also that we may all be consistent and refrain from bias when discussing different 'mental illness's' or lifestyles. It was an interesting article. Some other interesting quotes from the article is “Dr. Smith argued that by preventing his patients from pursuing more life-threatening alternatives, he was following the Hippocratic oath to do no harm.” It surprised me that a doctor would defy medical rules and risk his entire career to perform these amputations. It shows that there are some people out there who are willing to perform these amputations regardless of the consequences. I think more research has to be done about it because it really is still a mystery to many of us, and it is hard to judge when you just don't know.