TIL a patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder who was blind for 15 years began regaining vision after psychotherapy. When a personality with vision was dominant the electrical activity in the visual cortex was normal. A blind personality would shut the visual cortex of their brain off. reddit/r/todayilearned/comments/2amwz2/til_a_patient_with_dissociative_identity_disorder/ • Shit like this blows my mind! So interesting what the brain can do. • So mind-blowing it kinda discredited everything I was taught in Psych class. • Can you elaborate? What were you taught in psych class that is in conflict with this? • The validity of DID being its own mental disorder has been called into question many times. The last time I took a Psychology class was in 2010, but I remember my professor talking about how they were considering removing it from the DSM under the idea that DID might be a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. • Thats pretty interesting, I just got done taking a Psych 101 class and DID was definitely a personality disorder; my professor didnt bring up at all if it was being questioned. • Not a psych student, but wouldnt this suggest that its more than a personality disorder? • Wouldnt what suggest that its more than a personality disorder? • The visual cortex of the brain being shut off. Like I said, Im not even an expert-in-training, but to me that seems to imply its not just a personality problem? • Im not a psych student either but Im just gonna guess since personality disorders come from the brain, any function that is controlled by the brain is affected. In this case, that would be eyesight. • Oh sure. /u/jeric13xd made it sound like it was a lot bigger deal than just DID may not exist. • Probably that DID is likely bullshit. • I heard the same thing from one of my psych. professors (that DID was pretty much bullshit). • Theres a big difference between bullshit and being misdiagnosed. • Seriously too many spirits in one body. How can one person do that type of thing? Its not possible for a person to wield that type of control over their brains activity, even inadvertently. Souls must exist and that patients body had more than one. • Yeah..... Sound science there. • Great theory, but I prefer to assume we are all filled with the divine pasta sauce given unto man by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Either that or Unicorns. All of these theories could be valid... ( ︶︿︶)_╭∩╮ Share this post and let friends know about r/todayilearned and type @reply us share message • Bid at the last second on Ebay Youbidder It is free
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:48:40 +0000
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