BIID: Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Thoughts from an Amputee
Channel: Footless Jo
Date: 2019-02-05

BIID (also known as amputee identity disorder and body integrity dysphoria) is a disorder in which someone feels as though they should be disabled when they are, in fact, able-bodied. What it is really, and what do I, as am an amputee, think of it?

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Research Studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19132621

Articles:
https://www.verywellmind.com/amputating-a-healthy-limb-1123848
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034702
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/health/psychology/at-war-with-their-bodies-they-seek-to-sever-limbs.html

Videos & Stories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x55IuSyIyQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRihAJ3H9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xujgH_C2q8
https://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/woman-lives-life-wheelchair-dreams-paralyzed/
https://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/people-are-becoming-disabled-by-choice-and-calling-themselves-transabled/

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Fourteen years of pain and failed ankle surgeries brought me to 2018, when I made the difficult decision to become a twenty-seven-year-old below-the-knee elective amputee. This channel is to document my journey of amputation surgery, recovery, and reclaiming my life.