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Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Um. There are many ways that such surgery could "ruin her life" other than scars. I don't know if there was a scar quote, but that one isn't it.
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IIRC, I saw it somewhere, but I wasn't saying it was that quote.
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I do suspect some mental illness, though, based on the level of fear and the fact that she had already undergone the procedure.
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"Rowland was committed to a Pennsylvania mental hospital when she was 12, weighing almost 200 pounds, and diagnosed with "oppositional defiant disorder," Sikora said. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry defines the condition as an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant and hostile behavior toward authority figures that seriously interferes with day-to-day functioning."
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03-15-2004, 03:34 PM
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