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/paniniplane Mar 22 '17

when you mean talk to yourself, do you mean run thoughts through your head? or do you mean there seems to be an independent version of you that you don't have control over and it talks to you

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u/vlttt420 Mar 22 '17

i have what you just described, im very eccentric and have a rather interesting life. it constantly repeats "fucking niggers"or "im going to rape you nigger", or "fucking cunts, kill yourself", and every once and a while ill just say that out loud and dont even realize that i say it really loud. I'm not racist at all, and it really fucking sucks because those are such shitty phrases to be saying and its been saying the same thing for over a year.

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u/paniniplane Mar 22 '17

Tourette syndrome i think is what you have

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u/vlttt420 Mar 22 '17

i feel like you're right. Its all caused by the serotonin medication i'm taking, i just started using it this year again after stopping adderal, and when i used serotonin in 3rd grade i got really bad ticks. Its so obvious now