Psychopathology of Fetishism and Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) (Acceptance Speech)
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I wonder if there's any cross over between BIID sufferers that "experience" themselves as disabled in some way, with the need to have amputations in order to be their "true self" and the types of dysphoria/dysmorphia that Trans people speak of – when not associating with their own body?
I agree 100%
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Congratulations dr. Vaknin for telling it as it is, in a world where perversion is becoming a pseudo-moral standard. A question: can one experience own body as alien, temporalily, out of extreme fatigue? It may have to do with the decline of sensory sensitivity due to that.
Addiction is a (one of many) normal response to trauma or stress imo.
remembered the movie "Crash" by David Cronenberg
At approx 6:25– I’ve cared for patients with these neuro issues when I worked on neurology unit. Extremely interesting
You had said, typically on the left side. Is there a significance to the left side? Curious why this is typical?