Munchausen-By-Proxy Syndrome which belongs to a group of mental disorders known as fictitious disorders, is characterized by pattern of behavior in which someone, usually a mother, inflicts harm on her child in an attempt to gain attention and recognition for herself. The mother uses injuries on her child to garner attention or pity for herself.
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Mother with Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome is always in a constant effort to mask the life endangering child abuse she commits behind closed doors – A process Schreier and Libow call “mother imposturing.”
Boanthropy.
Those who surfer from the psychological disorder “Boanthropy” attempt to live and behave like cow or ox. It may only require hypnosis to set this disorder that have been linked to dream, in motion.
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This unusual disorder can come suddenly, and gradually operate on you until you are down on all fours like a grazing bovine. Boanthropy has been around for quite some time; the most famous sufferer of this condition was Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 605BC to 562BC. According to the Christians’ holy book: he was humbled by God, driven from men and did eat grass as oxen; all these are as result of being boastful about his achievements – read Daniel chapter 4.
Body integrity identity disorder (BIID).
This is a psychological disorder wherein sufferers have oppressive feeling that one or more limbs of their body do not belong to them; they think they would be happier if one or more of their body parts are removed or disabled. The obsessive desire for a limb amputation.
‘The chair gives me psychological relief, instead of physical.’ ‘I know it can be difficult for people without BIID to understand, but it’s what we feel,’ said Chloe Jennings-White, a Cambridge graduate who reports say has made several attempts at injuring herself so she can climb into wheelchair.
BIID which is also known as Apotemnophilia or amputee identity disorder, is an extremely rare neurologic disorder in which a person has an overwhelming interest in being an amputee.
“This is so completely beyond the realm of normal behavior,” Dr. First, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, said.
According to Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford, people with B.I.I.D. have a clearly mistaken belief about their bodies.
“It reminds me a little of anorexia nervosa,” Dr. Spiegel added, “where people think they’re fat when it’s obvious they’re not.
Pica.
Pica as an eating disorder is defined as the repetitive ingestion of nonnutritive substances; sufferers have appetite for things that are not normal to eat. Materials consumed by patients with pica includes chalk, soap, paper, feces, soil, nails, uncooked yam and many other substances.
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A diagnosis of this disorder requires that patient persist in the abnormal way for at least a month.
References:
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Woods DW, Flessner CA, Franklin ME; Trichotillomania Learning Center-Scientific Advisory Board. The Trichotillomania Impact Project (TIP): J Clin Psychiatry. 2006;67:1877-1888.
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Blom, R., Hennekam, R., & Denys, D. (2012, April 13). Body Integrity Identity Disorder. – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326051.
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Encyclopedia of mental disorders. Pica – http://www.minddisorders.com/Ob-Ps/Pica.html
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Schreier, H.A., & Libow, J.A. (1993). Hurting for Love: Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. New York: The Guilford Press.
