Continuation of the deaf sz thread

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There were some interesting previous threads on this topic you might want to check out.

Can deaf people hear voices?

One man experiences a voice projected in his brain “like a ghost”. A woman hears voices “shouting through her stomach” accompanied by “black, shadowy lips”; another hears her sister’s voice talking to her at night when she is in bed “like it is coming from a transmitter or a radio”. These three people are deaf. They, along with 50 per cent of all deaf people with schizophrenia, ‘hear’ voices. It is hard to imagine an experience more strange, unsettling and counterintuitive. Research carried out recently has begun to unpick this contradictory psychological phenomenon, and may change the way that voice hallucinations are understood in hearing people too. Trawl back through the research on vo…

Schizophrenia among the Deaf

The thought of deafness and schizophrenia combined may sound strange or maybe even like a stigma considered to be a lost cause and the lack of research doesn’t help, but there are some alternative hypotheses researchers have come up with in the past two decades offering some insight into this phenomena. There are actually a considerable amount of deaf people with schizophrenia compared to their hearing counterparts who also have schizophrenia. Researchers have been plagued with the question of whether the ‘voices’ described by those born profoundly deaf are actually auditory or if there are other perceptual forms of hallucinations that occur in deaf people. The several hypotheses are as fo…