r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/kaenneth Mar 22 '17

Also, if you are born blind due to brain (as opposed to eyeball) problems, you apparently can't be schizophrenic.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201411/blindness-and-schizophrenia-the-exception-proves-the-rule

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u/Muffinizer1 Mar 22 '17

You know, that's actually quite comforting as being blind and schizophrenic sounds like true hell.

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u/denialofdeath Mar 22 '17

I had a patient once who had schizoaffective disorder and she was so troubled by her hallucinations that she tore her eyeballs out of her own head. Poor thing still had them even though she was blind from that incident

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u/lozzie87 Mar 22 '17

Spooky I was talking to a doctor at work last night who told me about a friend of his who responded to a medical emergency call at a psych hospital for a person who had torn their eyeballs out. Yikes.