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Originally Posted by juniorvickers
Hi,
I'd like to apologize up front if I am posting in the wrong place, but I don't know the disorder I am about to describe.
A service member returned from combat within the last year after being involved in an IED explosion which killed several in his vehicle. He regained conscientiousness in the hospital in Germany. He is back in the States and is in a wheelchair. He insists that he is a double amputee, missing both legs, one below the knee and one above the knee.
He is not. He has both his legs, and although there was other trauma to his person, he has recovered fully physically. He truly believes that he is missing his legs. According to his doctors, he should be walking fine.
What would you call this disorder?
Thanks.
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in rare situations the body can physically cause a person to not associate their limbs with being there, being attached,...
example I have MS. sometimes it takes a lot for me to realize my arms and legs are really still there, sometimes I have no feelings in those limbs therefore my mind is telling me my legs and arms are not attached to my body. on those days nothing anyone can tell me will convince my mind otherwise. just the way my body is handling my having MS.
many people wo have gone through a traumatic situation will also feel that their limbs are not their own, are not attached to their bodies, because that is how their mind works. sometimes its normal sometimes its called PTSD sometimes its called dissociative disorder, sometimes its called hallucination, delusional thinking....gosh I could go on with all the many different things this kind of problem is called.
in the end only this persons treatment provider can say how and why this person is reacting this way.
my suggestion if you are not this person, maybe there is something that the treatment providers and this person is not telling you, and the reality is if this is not you going through the problem theres nothing you can do and Im gonig to be frank here trying to diagnose another person is a very dangerous thing. you may end up coming to the wrong conclusions or end up getting a misdiagnosis by asking people other than his treatment providers who are the ones that are working with this person. I mean what if someone here told you this person has a tumor in their brain and you treat this person as if they did, only to find out they are normal or what if you get replies telling you this person is normal and this person actually has a brain tumor...either way you can be doing this person a dis service by going online posting and asking other mentally challenged people to give you a diagnosis on your friend. very dangerous indeed.
my suggestion if this person is you, keep working with your treatment providers. they are in the best position to get to the bottom of what is going on for you and helping you to get the right treatment for the problem.