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Phantom Limb Pain (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Looks painful. Maybe someone should tell them it isn't real.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thank the weird human brain for mirror therapy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Works on chronic non amputation injuries too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

Phantom Limb Pain | House M.D..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Where is the meme?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why are we still here? Just to suffer?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Every night I can feel my leg.. and my arm.. even my fingers..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

C3P0 was right!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

” Beauty is pain “

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So it's a bad idea to get ones limb amputated unnecessarily?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I do not recommend it, but you do you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

there's a rare mental illness called Body Integrity Dysphoria which makes people want to amputate a limb. They have less phantom pain than ordinary amputees, supposedly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Define unnecessary.

Issue is, people with Body Integrity Dysphoria might feel extreme discomfort from having a cartain limb (or more), those who gotten said limb amputated got their life improved. They still sometimes suffer from phantom limb pain, but often was an acceptable alternative to having said limb.

Even worse is, eugenicists often think even medically necessary amputations are unjustified, since "a disabled man is just as good as a dead man".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Memes? Seems like just a medical list