The 20-year-old patient said he had been experiencing 'incessant thoughts' about the fourth and fifth fingers on his left hand. The two fingers that caused him stress were ultimately cut off in a bid to treat him. TheHealthSite.com
The ringleader, who had his leg and penis removed, is now wheelchair-bound, while other members of the gang took part in stomach-churning acts of mutilation, including cutting off genitals.
Former nurse Nathaniel Arnold, 48, Jacob Crimi-Appleby, 23, and male prostitute Damien Byrnes, 36, all removed the body parts from now wheelchair bound Norwegian Marius Gustavson.
An American woman has opened up on her drastic decision to pour drain cleaner into her eyes after dreaming of being blind since she was a child.
According to Mirror UK, Jewel Shuping, from North Carol.
WARNING: DISTURBING DETAILS - Jewel Shuping has Body Integrity Identity Disorder and dreamt of being blind since she was a child, so in 2006 she took matters into her own hands