Canadian man has two fingers amputated to relieve 'body dysmorphia'

A man in has had two of his fingers amputated to cure his body dysmorphia.

The unnamed patient, 20, said that ever since childhood he had 'incessant,' intrusive thoughts about the fourth and fifth fingers on his left hand.

His doctors at Université Laval in Quebec wrote that while he understood that the fingers were his own, he felt 'they should not belong to his body.'

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