Body integrity dysphoria is a rare and complex condition in which individuals experience a persistent and distressing desire ...

A 20-year-old man recently had two of his healthy fingers amputated to resolve his persisting distress that they didn't belong on his body. A 20-year-old Canadian man no longer has two of his healthy ...

A doctor performed the amputation after the man suffered from body integrity identity disorder and had a “traumatizing” sensation that the two healthy fingers didn’t belong to his body A doctor in ...

In what is called the first described case of “digits amputation,” Canadian doctors surgically removed two healthy fingers from a young man who was experiencing “body integrity dysphoria.” The sad, ...

A 20-year-old Canadian man no longer has two of his healthy fingers after deciding to get them amputated, and body integrity identity disorder is why doctors agreed to it. The extremely rare mental ...