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PaperclipPerfector  11mo ago (text post)   3101 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 6, 2024

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Overheard at my hospital:

Senior psychiatrist, about 15 years older than me- "I need to get a breast reduction done, look at me, I'm tiny, and I swear a third of my weight is up here."

Then she went on about how it wouldn't be covered by the NHS, and it would ludicrously expensive to get done privately here, hence her plan to fly in to Turkey and get cut down to size there.

The shame! The squandering of God-given gifts! An imminent call for a diagnosis of severe body dysmorphia with threat of self-mutilation requiring involuntary commitment! A man can only sigh and pour one out.

diagnosis of severe body dysmorphia

If you catch a plastic surgeon drunk they'll often argue that ANY desire for plastic surgery is body dysmorphia. Any at all.

There's good reason that they'd say so only when they're drunk, because it's a ludicrously over-expansive claim!

What makes going under the knife qualitatively different when it comes to nigh universal desires to change or improve one's body? Getting rid of burn scars? Removing a mole? Does wanting to get a haircut or go to the gym count as body dysmorphia?

There are no neat edges here, but at the very least I'd expect a degree of delusion about the current condition of one's body, as well as obvious negative harm before I'd consider medicalizing the situation to be warranted.

What makes going under the knife qualitatively different when it comes to nigh universal desires to change or improve one's body? Getting rid of burn scars? Removing a mole? Does wanting to get a haircut or go to the gym count as body dysmorphia?

All yes per them.

(and therefore the dysmorphia isn't necessarily a bad thing).

Well, modus ponens, modus tollens heh

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