A Healthy Woman Begs Doctors To Permanently Paralyze Her So She Can Live Her Dream Life
Usually, when you see a person with disabilities, you start appreciating your healthy body and what you have always taken for granted. If a disability is reversible, people go through great lengths, spend a lot of time and money to reverse their disability in order to live a healthy and active life. This is true for most people, but not for 58-year-old Chloe Jennings-White.
Although White is a completely healthy and active woman without any disability, she has a strange desire to become permanently paralyzed. To inch towards her desired life as a paralyzed woman, she even bought herself leg braces as well as a wheelchair that she uses almost daily.
Residing in Salt Lake City, Utah, White was extensively searching for doctors who would be willing to permanently paralyze her, but so far hasn’t found one ready to do so. Apart from doctors, there’s another way White can achieve her goal, but that requires her to cough up $22,500, not an everyday amount readily available at her disposal.
Before wanting to be permanently paralyzed with legs, White dreamed of living her life without her legs. To achieve this, she purposely put herself in harm’s way by skiing aggressively or participating in dangerous runs simply to have her legs taken off her body.
It was only after an unfortunate ski accident in Utah that White realized she suffered from Body Integrity Identity Disorder. BIID, in simple terms, makes the person reject their active body and forces them to seek disabilities that match what they perceive in their mental state of mind. In the case of White, mentally she is a woman paralyzed waist down, but in reality, she isn’t, which makes her want to achieve what she has mentally perceived and accepted.
This is why White uses leg braces and a wheelchair even when she doesn’t need to, just to satisfy her mental state of mind. After a thorough self-diagnosis, White believes that her legs shouldn’t have any sensation and that if she ever achieved permanent paralysis, she wouldn’t regret it. Despite being treated by Dr. Mark Malan, White is determined to fit her perfect perception of herself by achieving permanent paralysis. In order to stop her from causing herself any harm, Dr. Malan has suggested an expensive way for her to achieve her dream – temporary nerve block.
Costing about $22,500, nerve blocking can temporarily ‘paralyze’ her limbs so White can live the life of her dreams with her preferred disability. Dr. Malan hopes that this would give her a chance to test the reality of not being able to use her legs, even for a short period of time, and possibly help her change her mind about permanent paralysis.
