Extreme Body Modification Moves To Amputation

Probably related to the transgender phenomenon:

Forget extreme plastic surgery, tattoos and piercings – a minority are taking body modification to the next level – by voluntarily cutting off their own limbs.

A body modifier has exclusively revealed how his “extra” limbs feel alien, and has resorted to the drastic measure of self-mutilation – because he actually want to be disabled.

Dr. Michael First, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, has led investigations into this bizarre and extremely rare psychiatric condition which he is calling body integrity identity disorder (BIID).

Also known as amputee identity disorder, it gives people a fierce desire to rid themselves of perfectly healthy limbs.

Again, it is amazing, but too much ease and safety actually produce even more pain than the competitive, aggressive, occasionally violent environment we evolved to operate within.

I suspect the amygdala evolved to produce a low level aversive stimulus whenever it is not distracted, or engaged elsewhere. It is probably like a sort of default negativity, which the brain notices if there isn’t anything else going on to distract it. We often call this boredom, and know it feels bad, though the exact mechanism never dawns on us. Evolutionarily, it probably drives us to action and keeps us moving, and prevents the wasting of opportunities in a world where wasted opportunities could have killed us.

Interestingly if you remove amygdala-distractions enough, it would appear this baseline angst can refocus itself on all sorts of strange things, producing pathology. Here, these people gradually adapted their amygdalae to be triggered by perceptions of their own limbs. And once trained, the amygdala haunts them, which they conclude can only be fixed by removing the focus on the amygdala-angst – their limbs. Of course as with the trannies, that will only lead their bored amygdala to refocus itself on something else, and the cycle will repeat.

Notice how if these people were constantly being chased by tigers and narrowly escaping as they brought food home to their families, the last thing they would be thinking about as they sat in front of a fire watching their wife tend to their now-well-fed children, would be how much they wished they could amputate their legs. That is the life they evolved for, and it is what their brain is designed to operate within.

All of us encounter stuff that is miserable at some point in our lives. We see things we wish we didn’t have to look at, encounter threats and adversities that are horrifying in the moment, and have to do things we wish we could avoid. When you encounter these things, focus on the sensations they provide, no matter how bad, and tell yourself you are programming your brain to be happier in the future. Embrace the amygdala burn, and you will increase your adversity tolerance in the moment, and end up happier in the end.

The human machine is not just the human machine. It is integral with its environment. And because of that, analyzing the environment’s molding effect is as important as examining the brain’s operation, when it comes to understanding the system. Both are integrally interrelated with each other.

Our brains are designed to receive specific programming cues from a specific environment, which evolution has us for. Put us in an environment we are not designed for, and let those programming cues be absent or atypical and that will alter brain development and function. And once the brain becomes misprogrammed, things can rapidly go off the rails.

If you try to examine a case of cognitive dysfunction solely by looking at the individual, you will never see the whole picture. The human brain, and the environmental inputs which mold it are the Yin and Yang of consciousness. You need to grasp them both.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because it is good brain programming.