What is Body integrity identity disorder?

Body integrity identity disorder is characterized as the desire to remove one or more healthy limbs or one who desires a severed spinal cord to induce paralysis.

How do members experience Body integrity identity disorder?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with Body integrity identity disorder*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for Body integrity identity disorder*

Who has Body integrity identity disorder on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 1
20s 1
30s 0
40s 1
50s 0
60s 0
70+ 0

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 0
Female 2

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What is Body integrity identity disorder?

Body integrity identity disorder is characterized as the desire to remove one or more healthy limbs or one who desires a severed spinal cord to induce paralysis.



Common symptoms reported by people with Body integrity identity disorder

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for Body integrity identity disorder

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Compare treatments taken by people with Body integrity identity disorder

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Who has Body integrity identity disorder on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 0 new patients joined this month
  • 0 say Body integrity identity disorder is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 1
20s 1
30s 0
40s 1
50s 0
60s 0
70+ 0

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 0
Female 2

These charts show data from Body integrity identity disorder patients who have completed their condition history
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