His question, "Have you ever worked with or heard about a blind schizophrenic?" The answer: "No."

Apparently one case has been heard of. Kinda.

A woman was hospitalized for severe schizophrenia. She then suffered an accident that left her blind. Three days later, as my professor put it, "She decided to stop being schizophrenic."

Holy shit.

I have no idea what it means, but it is ridiculously fascinating.

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In fact he was saying that Schizophrenia is a lot to do with what people are seeing. For example if they watch something on the telly they think all the characters are communicating with them etc. Or if they see someone in the street eating with say a fork they think that they are trying to kill them.

Taking this into account, it makes logical sense for someone who cannot see to be immune from these symptoms of Schizophrenia no??

(Edited by theatreminelli at 2:12 pm on Dec. 9, 2005)

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I find it more intruiging that she had a choice in the matter than the simple idea that blind people cannot be schizophrenic.

So, did she just suddenly say: "Yeah, I don't really feel the need to do that sort of thing any more." That's bizarre, that is.

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She decided?

I find it more intruiging that she had a choice in the matter than the simple idea that blind people cannot be schizophrenic.

So, did she just suddenly say: "Yeah, I don't really feel the need to do that sort of thing any more." That's bizarre, that is.

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Oh, no. That's just my professor's unique way of putting things which I decided to reproduce exactly because it amused me.

As for schizophrenia being tied to sight... well, it is particularly fascinating because of how much schizophrenia encompasses. Voices in the head, flat affect, delusions of grandeur (I've always wondered what would happen if we put all the different delusional Jesus's together. Free for all or peace and love?) , and all kinds of disparate problems. All tied to sight? Intriguing indeed.

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blind+scitz = no.

deaf + scitz =?

etc.???

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A few weeks ago in psych class we watched a video on a parinoid schitzo and it was fun stuff.

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But if you can't, then that might be a contributing factor to why blind people don't get it at all/very much.

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Kind of hard to be tricked into 'seeing' deamons and all kinds of wacky stuff if you are blind.  Oh look I see something, but since I'm blind, I will just disregard it as a figment of my imagination...

A few weeks ago in psych class we watched a video on a parinoid schitzo and it was fun stuff.

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Schizophrenia isn't "seeing demons" it's more accurately "percieveing demons."  You can lie awake, in bed, eyes closed, and i darkenss, and the things your perciecve during the day do not go away.  Only reason a schizo can go to sleep is cause of the bod's natural sleep process of shutting down sensory input.  I simply see schizophrenia as a disorder which atlers percaption by mixing subconscious thought with sensory input.

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My neuroscience teacher mentioned today some research a friend is involved in. The man has been frantically calling everyone in relevant fields to see if anyone has experience with it.
His question, "Have you ever worked with or heard about a blind schizophrenic?" The answer: "No."

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They never ended finding anyone who had schizophrenia, and was totally blind. They found (I think) two patients with partial blindness who suffered from schizophrenia.

Anyway, try searching through some medical journals. You'd be surprised what people say is 'ground-breaking research' has already been researched in the past.

Any researcher worth their salt goes over previous research in the topic extensively before actually beginning the research. Since this fellow is of the neurosciencey bent, I might presume that he'd look for reasons.

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