LID (Language Identity Disorder) / NID (Nationality Identity Disorder)

A few weeks ago I was watching a documentary about a mental/physical disorder in which a man was described how as a child he had a strange feeling that his left leg was not part of his body. He finally dealt with this afliction as an adult by cutting his leg off.

They called this ailment BIID (Body Integrity Identity Disorder) and defined it as a neurological and psychological disorder that causes those suffering to believe they would be happier living as an amputee. This documentary also deals also with the concept of genders and sexuality and how some people feel that they were born of the wrong gender. As in the story above, some people suffering a GID (Gender Identity Disorder) deal with their problems by switching gender, what we call a transgendered. It is worth mentioning that this subject sows a controversy: some consider this disorder is biological rather then psychological, while others don´t consider it a disorder at all.

That there is a physical component to both of these disorders is pretty interesting, and it brought to my mind an old idea about those who feel that they were born in the wrong country, family and/or language community; this idea is what brought me to write about those with these disorders and their/ our feelings.

I would like to exclude from this group those who are immature or in their teenage years:  still searching for their identity. Also I would probably exclude people with parents of different nationalities (i.e. American father and Japanese mother) or adopted because they may have a conflict of interest; and finally people living in a foreign country and within a different heritage, because they yearn for their home country.

Thinking outside the box and giving the resulting group the benefit of the doubt I will assume that there is a biological/neurological or even a karma or reincarnation factor on their thoughts, and I would call it a LID (Language Identity Disorder) and the other a NID (Nationality Identity Disorder).

This two links are examples of them.
http://notreallyaustralian.blogspot.com/2011/04/brunswick-street-andrew-street-metlink.html
http://about.me/oogatta

I might write some more about it in the future.

If you feel like fitting on the description, please make a comment. If you see something wrong on my writing please correct me.

Thanks
Richard