this perfectly healthy woman wants to become permanently paralyzed!

To everyone else, Chloe Jennings-White probably looks like a normal woman but the truth is she has a double life. Not only is she a chemist with a Ph. D, she also lives in a wheelchair as a paraplegic. There is only one problem with all this, she's not paraplegic at all. Her legs work perfectly fine. Chloe is what they are calling transabled and says she suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder. Keep reading to find out more about what this actually means.

Could you imagine someone wanting to live their entire life trapped in a wheelchair? Probably not but 61-year-old Chloe Jennings-White of Salt Lake City wants to achieve that goal. She has completely dedicated herself to living as if she was disabled.

Chloe is a very normal woman in most respects. Her legs work perfectly fine, she has a great job and a great home. She just happens to also like spending time in a wheelchair and envisioning herself as a paraplegic. She doesn't have to do this, but she wants to.

Chloe has a pair of leg braces that she uses to lock her knees in place. She and many others like her identify as "transabled" a label that is growing in use by the day. Most day's Chloe will spend the entire day in her wheelchair only getting out of it when she needs to quickly climb a set of stairs. She's a skilled skier and loves to hike but these things don't truly make her happy. For her, being a paraplegic is the only thing that would bring her joy on the inside.

When Chloe was 9 years old she got on her bike and intentionally rode her bike off of a wooden stage trying to purposefully break her back. It's safe to say that she has felt the way she does about her body for as long as she can remember.

Her bike accident didn't end up causing any permanent harm but it could have. Instead of landing on her back like she wanted to, she landed on her neck which made her realize that she could have become paralyzed not from her waist down but from her neck down. That is absolutely not the goal she was trying to achieve as that would have left her completely immobilized.

Shortly after her failed bike accident, Chloe's aunt had an accident which caused her to end up being paraplegic. This made Chloe wish for the same even more than she already did.

Chloe was diagnosed with BIID also known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder in 2008. This disease is also called being transabled. It's a very rare psychological illness that makes patients believe that they would be much happier in life if they were an amputee or paraplegic. Your default state of mind becomes living as a disabled person when you have this illness.

Chloe's Psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Malan, tries his best to treat her. He was quoted as saying: "The question I often ask is, is it better to have somebody pretending to use a wheelchair, or to commit suicide?"

He continued, saying: "One possibility could be to do some sort of nerve blocking so that that limb could not actually be used for a period of time, to let the patient test the reality of being physically disabled temporarily. It would give BIID sufferers a chance to change their minds if they wanted to."

Chloe is convinced that she needs to step up in making more people aware of her condition going so far as to write for a BIID support group. It may seem weird but who are we to tell Chloe how she should feel?

0 An in-depth look at Body Integrity Identity Disorder.

BIID occurs when a person's idea of how they should look does not match their actual physical form. The sufferer wants to have an amputation. In most cases, the limb that the person would like removed is healthy. The condition affects just a small percentage of the population. Several psychologists and neurologists have tried to understand what the root cause of the condition is. The theory is that BIID occurs when the brain is not able to provide an accurate plan of the body. Some experts believe the cause to be psychological. To become a better person they feel that a certain limb will have to be amputated. One theory is that a person with BIID may have seen an amputee at an earlier age and this image has replaced their own thoughts about what constitutes the ideal person. Some manage to cope with the illness by using canes and prosthetic attachments to help them feel complete. Meanwhile, others may harm the limb they wish to be removed or force doctors into removing it.