Here is another encouragement to examine all possible medical causes of halluncinations -- helps to demystify it.
A young woman who was losing her vision due to a medical condition
was seeing visions. She was scared that this was due to mental illness.
Her predicament was neurological -- her brain was generating images attempting to 'adjust' to loss of incoming visual information.
'I thought I was losing my mind, but I was actually losing my sight'
By Sarah McDermott
BBC Stories
6 April 2018
For an interesting story, go here.
[www.bbc.com]
A young woman who was losing her vision due to a medical condition
was seeing visions. She was scared that this was due to mental illness.
Her predicament was neurological -- her brain was generating images attempting to 'adjust' to loss of incoming visual information.
'I thought I was losing my mind, but I was actually losing my sight'
By Sarah McDermott
BBC Stories
6 April 2018
For an interesting story, go here.
[www.bbc.com]
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About Charles Bonnet syndrome
CBS affects people who've lost most or all of their eyesight and is more likely to occur if vision loss affects both eyes
It's thought there are more than 100,000 people in the UK with CBS
The hallucinations may be simple patterns or detailed images of events, people or places and are caused by failing eyesight, not a mental health problem or dementia
People of any age can be affected but CBS hallucinations tend to occur later in life after a person starts to lose their sight and often begin when a person's sight suddenly deteriorates
When a person starts to lose their sight, their brain doesn't receive as much information as it used to and it is thought that the brain sometimes responds by filling in the gaps with fantasy patterns or images that it's stored - these stored images are experienced as hallucinations
There is currently no cure for CBS