Sorry that I chose so poorly. Golly gee, am I the poster girl?

He has a disease where he bites off his own fingers, you know.  He can feel the pain just the same as you or I. Agony. And it's not that he wants to do it, either.  It's beyond his control.  They have to tie his hands behind his back.  There is no cure.

He kind of reminds me of you, actually