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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
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From: Kat [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:41 AM
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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
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