Not to feel any sympathy towards this person?

[SameDifference]

Guys I am a member of the Mumsnet Bloggers Network. I would like the 'mainstream view' on a recent post. Please read this and tell me whether I am being unreasonable.

samedifference1.com/2013/07/17/body-integrity-identity-disorder/

On a disability group I have been called judgemental and discriminatory but given my reasons for my opinion I feel I am entitled to a little judgement.

"She has a mental illness but instead of trying to help her overcome it her doctors are going to paralyse her? Wtf?! It's like giving liposuction to an anorexic! Er, no, the job of medical professionals is to help not harm!"

The risks this woman is taking with her safety could result in worse than paralysis. I'm sure her doctors have seen a lot more than a few newspapers if any such decision was reached. From what I understand she will have to go outside of the UK to have the procedure she wants.

I would rather see someone help her with managing her mental disability, but I would hate to see her kill herself in her wish to be disabled physically.

YABVU.

You can have your feelings of course, however repulsive anyone else might find them, but that's all they are - your subjective feelings they are not so worthy or imbued with any significant specialness that they trump others or medical diagnosis. I'm with everyone that called you discriminatory.

Yet another example of how mental illness is not seen as a true illness unlike anything physical. How hard is it to understand people with a mental illness don't choose it? The same way someone with a physical disability or illness doesn't.

skin : So basically you think your physical disability trumps her mental disorder? Nice.

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Yes, that. Exactly.

YABVU OP

Yabu sorry.

I feel very sorry for her. I also think carrying out the operation would be unethical.

I hope that she is sectioned or some intervention happens very soon. So I guess I do feel some sympathy in that she is a danger to herself.