Born blind or schizophrenia (poll)

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Research says being born blind is protective or preventative of developing schizophrenia.

SO…

Would you rather?
  • Be born blind
  • Develop schizophrenia
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I cant even imagine someone wanting to have never been able to see anything ever from birth instead of developing mental health issues at some point in their life. Thats crazy to me! :exploding_head:

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My aunt was born and all she could see was colors. Then around the age of 4 her eyes went completely blind and she couldn’t see nothing for the rest of her life. She developed depression and had problems with it serious at times. And she had to live off of Social Security her whole life as she couldn’t care for herself.

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I couldn’t imagine being born blind
That must be horrible!

I know what it’s like to be living with schizophrenia
Although sz is no walk in the park
At least I’m familiar with my enemy

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those are two sucky things. life is hard. i don’t want either.

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Fingolfin?.. reeeally commmeee onn dude seriously???

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Theres benefits to being born blind.

Schizophrenia causes sudden catastrophic failure in life

Bornblind you have recognized disability from birth

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Both suck. I had vision impairments too with schizophrenia. I do feel much better now. I think a lot of it has to do with the course of the illness and the seriousness of your illness. I had auditory problems too. I had a lot of things going wrong with me. I’m glad I wasn’t born blind. But I had dissociation and had several delusions.

I didn’t start hallucinating until later on in life. Almost exclusively during sleep time or during nightmares or dreams.

I don’t really remember growing up, but I had delusions I was a boltzman brain and a philosophical zombie. I even thought I had multiple levels of consciousness and that aliens were transferring it through space time.

It sucks.

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Well youre not a brain in a vat but you could be a philosophical zombie. I feel like I am.

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I am serious, I hate being schizophrenic. My vision is precious to me, as it is to everyone, but… my mind and my sanity are more important.

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OMG anything but blindness

I take medicine that makes sz livable but no medicine is gonna reduce your blindness

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Im a visual artist. SZ and all. I would love to not have SZ but not at the expense of my sight.

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The hobbies are the joy of my life, why I keep going, and they are mostly visual.

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Being born blind would be better than suddenly becoming blind.

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I had three eye surgeries as a kid and being blind for a week was quite hellish.

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Being blind is 100 percent more horrifying. It’s out of question.

I’m not very bad condition idk

Sz is myth . For everyone is different. Blindness for everyone is same.

Sz is just a name naming millions of different conditions

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I’d rather be sz than blind but I’d rather be deaf than sz.

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This is not a good thread for me, i would hate to have that choice, we didn’t know we would develop sz until later in life and those early moments are crucial for our development,

sz is a very unlucky thing Imo whereas genetics like blindness/deafness is more written in the code of DNA,

People will argue this is true for sz as well but i don’t agree with that, i would say sz was not a genetic disability.

if there was an option for None i would choose that

  • None
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Walking or having sz?

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My mother was blind and she went through much worse with her disability than I ever have with mine. No way would I ever choose blindness.

This is also one of the nastier polls to have been posted here.

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