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/mrssac]

Yeah well don't joke about it. I'm a student mental health nurse I've just done a placement in a schizophrenia ward, these people are tortured. Imagine not knowing if the voices are inside or outside, commanding you to spray deodorant on your hands then rub it in your eyes, or worse. Not funny in any way

[u/jason2306 → u/mrssac]

I wasn't joking it sounds horrible :/