Deaf Schizophrenics
Last night I posted a question to deaf:
When a prelingually deaf person - someone who is born deaf and has never known sound as language - becomes schizophrenic... they don't hear voices, do they? If not, what tells them to kill people or run away from the CIA mind control rays? SOMETHING tells them this. Do they hallucinate people signing at them?
I'm not trying to be a wiseass: this is an actual real question that I am interested in knowing the answer to.
The responses have been very, very interesting, including two responses by nurses in psychiatric hospitals for the deaf and one deaf schizophrenic.
When a prelingually deaf person - someone who is born deaf and has never known sound as language - becomes schizophrenic... they don't hear voices, do they? If not, what tells them to kill people or run away from the CIA mind control rays? SOMETHING tells them this. Do they hallucinate people signing at them?
I'm not trying to be a wiseass: this is an actual real question that I am interested in knowing the answer to.
The responses have been very, very interesting, including two responses by nurses in psychiatric hospitals for the deaf and one deaf schizophrenic.