{"id":410,"date":"2013-04-17T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fms-teaching.ncl.ac.uk\/psy\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T09:55:43","slug":"do-no-harm-why-do-some-people-want-to-cut-off-a-perfectly-healthy-limb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/2013\/04\/17\/do-no-harm-why-do-some-people-want-to-cut-off-a-perfectly-healthy-limb\/","title":{"rendered":"Do No Harm: Why do some people want to cut off a perfectly healthy limb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Why do some people want to cut off a perfectly healthy limb?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/matter-files.s3.amazonaws.com\/media\/static\/free\/images\/banner.jpg\" alt=\"Do No Harm: Why do some people want to cut off a perfectly healthy limb?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"653\" \/><\/a>Body dysmorphohobic disorder (<a title=\"ICD 10 F45.2\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.who.int\/classifications\/icd10\/browse\/2010\/en%23\/F45.2\"> ICD 10 F45.2 <\/a>) can occur as a disorder on its own or as a symptom of other disorders e.g. <a title=\"Mood disorders\" href=\"https:\/\/fms-teaching.ncl.ac.uk\/psy\/disorders\/mood-disorders\/\">depression<\/a>. It&#8217;s defined as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A type of mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the affected person is concerned with body image, manifested as excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of their physical features. The person thinks they have a defect in either one feature or several features of their body, which causes psychological distress that causes clinically significant distress or impairs occupational or social functioning. Often BDD co-occurs with depression and anxiety, social withdrawal or social isolation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readmatter.com\/\">Matter<\/a> have opened up for general reading an article about a person with this disorder which is well <a title=\"Do No Harm | Matter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readmatter.com\/f\/do-no-harm\/?utm_source=FOM&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=DNH\">worth a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I was attached to the Scottish surgeon mentioned in the piece when I was a medical student and then returned to work for him in my first house job.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Scottish surgeon named Robert Smith, who practised at the Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, briefly held out legal hope for BIID sufferers by openly performing voluntary amputations, but a media frenzy in 2000 led British authorities to forbid such procedures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body dysmorphohobic disorder ( ICD 10 F45.2 ) can occur as a disorder on its own or as a symptom of other disorders e.g. depression. It&#8217;s defined as: A type of mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the affected person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/2013\/04\/17\/do-no-harm-why-do-some-people-want-to-cut-off-a-perfectly-healthy-limb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disorders","category-somatoform-disorders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}