Methinks the surgeon should not have stopped at the leg....

Ok, these folks are very ill.  The fact that the surgeons are "enabling"
them makes a mockery of the Hippocratic oath.  My wife has a couple of kids
in her class who are self-mutilators.  What the surgeons are doing would be
the same as if she were handing out razor blades to these children.

I think we can lay the blame squarely on post-modern western culture--where
nothing is intrinsically "wrong".  If it's not wrong, then it doesn't need
to be corrected through psych therapy.  The author is spot-on in the
paragraph  that opens with "When I first wrote about this condition in the
Atlantic...".  It has become "cool"--and profitable for the medical
establishment--to have a "condition du Juor".

Ya know, I don't thing we HAVE heard everything...yet.  I believe the worst
is yet to come.

Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Kat [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Strange Mental Disorder


OK, I've now heard of everything:

Amputee Wannabes:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/937135.asp?0cv=CB20

It really boggles my mind that people actually *want* to be disabled and
they have such a twisted view of themselves.

I'm trying to be nonjudgemental, honestly I am...but in this case, oy vey.

Kat