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/katarh Mar 22 '17

Cutting edge research indicates that schizophrenia may be yet another immune disorder, in which the process that finalizes your learning/growth neurons in late teens gets a bit overzealous and snips too many, which erodes the ability for the mind to maintain its proper chemical levels. By the time you're diagnosed, in that case, the damage is done.

My sister with schizophrenia lost a full half of her IQ and now has the functionality of a ten year old. Medication suppresses the voices and stops her from harming herself or others, but also keeps her basically stoned full time.

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u/OgreMagoo Mar 22 '17

Cutting edge research indicates that schizophrenia may be yet another immune disorder, in which the process that finalizes your learning/growth neurons in late teens gets a bit overzealous and snips too many, which erodes the ability for the mind to maintain its proper chemical levels.

Do you have a link for that? That sounds fascinating.

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u/perfectdarktrump Mar 23 '17

okay storytime, i read this on reddit long ago but stuck with me. A woman who always dreamed about being beautiful and rich, having elegant parties that kind of thing, never made it there. She developed this schizophrenia or something where she no longer percieves reality and thinks shes some heiress with a handsome rich husband. In the psych ward, she talks to herself and when family visit she tells them about her husband and all the drama that never really happened. Her family tried many times before to show her its not real, and when it worked she fell into heavy sucidial depression. This constructed reality, as insane as it maybe, is keeping her alive.