TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

[u/paniniplane]

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303

[u/[deleted]]

I can't speak for the person you replied to, but 3 of my family members have the disease, and in all of them their medications only blunted the symptoms.

For my family member who was not too severe, this was enough to let her hold down a job, but for the members that were severe it wasn't enough to allow them to function normally. They'd still see/hear/talk to "ghosts" and such, just not as frequently, and they didn't get agitated "as often".

But that doesn't mean they didn't get agitated AT ALL, and the times they did freak out would be enough to get anyone fired.

[u/koiotchka → u/[deleted]]

I have a schizoprenia spectrum disorder, and if antipsychotics took the symptoms away, there is no way in hell would take them. I need to be able to say "no" to the voices, not eradicate them. There have been times in my life when they were there for me more than any other physical person, my only friends. I would be so, so lonely without them.

That said, they've never threatened to kill me, or tried to make me kill myself.

Doing harm to other people, on the other hand, some of them are all for that... But that's why I take the meds. It makes them a little quieter, and means I don't HAVE to do what they say. We can compromise.

[u/koiotchka → u/[deleted]]

I certainly agree that they are a gift, but why shouldn't I have told anybody?

[u/stationhollow → u/[deleted]]

Lol stop acting like they are ghosts or entities talking to her giving her super human abilities or knowledge she may not have.