Medical Minute: Body Image Disturbance (BID)
The last post I wrote on Body Image Disturbance (BID) profiled a 23-year-old woman who died of complications related to her sixth breast augmentation surgery.
Despite the increased media focus on botched butt enhancement injections, many women continue to put their lives at risk.
Miami Gardens police have arrested a man (pictured above) who posed as a fake doctor to conduct unauthorized plastic surgery procedures on a woman who required hospitalization afterwards.
Cops say 30-year-old Oneal Ron Harris injected a substance consisting of cement, “fix-a-flat,” mineral oil, and “super glue,” into his victim as a butt enhancement and then sealed the incision with “super glue.”
The injections resulted in what police called a “serious medical condition,” requiring the victim to be hospitalized.
Miami Gardens Police say Morris also performed a similar procedure on himself. Source
Body Image Disturbance (BID), or Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a mental illness that is on the rise in the black community. Celebrities such as Nicki Minaj and Kim Kardashian help to perpetuate the myth that bizarrely altering a woman’s body parts will bring them riches and fame.
Rather than improve a woman’s low perception of herself, the illegal butt injections often results in depression, serious illness or death.
Kelly Rowland Wears Sexy Milk Mustache in New Campaign
Singer Kelly Rowland recently posed for Britain’s version of the ‘Got Milk’ campaign to raise awareness about the healthy benefits of drinking milk.
The new posters featuring Kelly wearing the famous milk moustache on her upper lip will be splashed across buses in Britain, according to the Daily Mail.
“I really believe that looking after your body makes you feel good on the inside and happy on the outside,” said Rowland, 30.
“When I’m feeling fit, I also feel confident and comfortable in my own skin.”
Heavy D was on weight loss program when he died
According to published reports, rapper Heavy D was on a weight loss program when he died suddenly last week at the age of 44.
The rapper had begun a weight loss plan and kept a regular workout regime, according to EURweb.com.
Tony Wisniewski, the rapper’s trainer at the Ultra Body Fitness gym in Los Angeles, set Heavy up on a fitness plan three months before his death. Wisniewski is the same trainer that helped him lose 150 pounds back in 2008.
Autopsy reports show that Heavy D, real name Dwight Arrington Myers, weighed 344 pounds at the time of his death.
The autopsy was completed on Wednesday, but the coroner’s office declined to release a cause of death until they know the results of toxicology reports, which could take weeks.
According to Heavy D’s cousin, he had a “touch of pneumonia,” after returning from a trip to England a few days before he passed.
“We really do believe obesity makes people do worse with lung diseases,” said Dr. Benjamin Suratt, associate division chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care hospital.
“If Heavy D died of a garden-variety pneumonia,” said Suratt, “it could be that he wasn’t able to fight it off due to his lungs not being able to fully expand and his immune system not having been fully functional.”
GUILTY! Judge Remands Murray to Jail Without Bond
Michael Jackson’s former physician, Conrad Murray, 58, has been found guilty of one count of manslaughter. The jury reached the verdict after 10 hours of deliberations which began on Friday, Nov. 4.
Murray faces a sentence of up to 4 years in prison. He could receive probation if Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor decides that Murray is a defendant with no prior criminal record, a circumstance that might mitigate in favor of probation.
Jackson died of cardiac and respiratory arrest following an acute Propofol (anesthesia) overdose on June 25, 2009 in his rented Holmby Hills, CA mansion.
UPDATE II:
La Toya Jackson screamed out in the quiet courtroom when the verdict was read. Court officers asked her to be silent.
UPDATE I:
Conrad Murray showed no emotion as the judge remanded him to jail immediately without bond.
Verdict reached in the Conrad Murray Manslaughter trial
The jury has announced they have reached a verdict after 10 hours of deliberations in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s former physician.
At 4 p.m. EST today, Conrad Murray will learn whether he will walk free or serve up to 4 years in prison for neglecting his duties as a doctor.
Developing….
Folie à deux Relationships (madness shared by two)
Loyal reader FLHoneybee writes in to give her analysis of the psychology behind the relationship of two S. Carolina sociopaths who were each sentenced to life without parole for beating a 3-year-old girl to death.
FLHoneybee is correct when she says one of the women was the dominant partner (Shanita Cunningham), while the other partner just went along and followed her lead (Erica Butts).
But she is incorrect in assuming that Erica Butts was just as much a victim as 3-year-old Serenity Richardson.
Just because one murderous partner is meek (or even felt intimidated) doesn’t make her any less complicit in the crime. They both took part. They are both psychopaths.
There is a term for women who intentionally seek out bad asses for relationships (‘hoodrat’ quickly comes to mind). But seriously, the term is “Folie à deux”.
Folie à deux is French for “madness shared by two”. In psychology circles it is referred to as shared psychosis or shared psychotic disorder. It simply means that each woman had it in her to be a murderer — but they were too cowardly to do it alone.
The child murderers, Leopold and Loeb, is one famous case that is often cited as an example of folie à deux where one dominant partner influences the other to kill.
Like Cunningham and Butts, the men were also homosexual lovers and each were sentenced to life in prison.
Tamar Braxton’s Husband, Vincent, Released from Hospital
According to TMZ.com, Toni Braxton’s brother-in-law, Vincent Herbert, was released from a NY hospital where he was treated for blood clots in his lungs.
Sandrarose.com broke the story that Vincent was rushed to the hospital two weeks ago after experiencing difficulty breathing. It was determined that the entertainment executive had a condition called Pulmonary embolism, or blood clots in the lungs.
Pulmonary embolism is usually fatal and involves a blood clot (thrombus) traveling from the legs and into the lungs (Deep Vein Thrombosis). People at high risk for DVTs are those who live a sedentary lifestyle, sit for long periods of time at cubicle desks or travel long distances on planes.
Vincent is the husband of Toni’s sister, Tamar Braxton, star of “Braxton Family Values”.
