“I was a bit frightened but I did not mention it to anybody because I thought they would call me deaf, silly, stupid, whatever!” said an 80 year-old woman who got macular disease problem and Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) in an interview (Macular Disease, 2013)
Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a condition when people see things that are not actually there. This syndrome has been discovered by an exceptional naturalist and philosopher, Charles Bonnet in 1720 who was initially observed symptoms from his grandfather, Charles Lulin (Scott, 2015) . Lulin had totally loss of vision yet he still could see some images of people, animals or objects which are thought to be as a hallucination.
CBS is not an uncommon condition among people who experienced visual impairments. However most of people nowadays do not aware of the fact that CBS is not a sign of mental health problem. They do not able to distinguish between CBS illusion and delusion. Delusion seen by people with mental health problem such as psychiatric or dementia. They usually see images of people or objects they know and familiar with, in opposite to CBS patients who are usually reported to see strange people who are sometimes in bizarre clothes. Patient with CBS …show more content…
The group of people who had negative outcomes of CBS was more likely to have repeated, fear inducing and longer lasting hallucination episodes which some had affected their daily activities. Some of them also did not even realize the onset of CBS symptoms and they were more likely to assume that their hallucinations were caused by mental illness. These factors somehow can cause some of CBS patient to feel depressed, isolated from the social, anxiety or even worst can cause injury to
Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a condition when people see things that are not actually there. This syndrome has been discovered by an exceptional naturalist and philosopher, Charles Bonnet in 1720 who was initially observed symptoms from his grandfather, Charles Lulin (Scott, 2015) . Lulin had totally loss of vision yet he still could see some images of people, animals or objects which are thought to be as a hallucination.
CBS is not an uncommon condition among people who experienced visual impairments. However most of people nowadays do not aware of the fact that CBS is not a sign of mental health problem. They do not able to distinguish between CBS illusion and delusion. Delusion seen by people with mental health problem such as psychiatric or dementia. They usually see images of people or objects they know and familiar with, in opposite to CBS patients who are usually reported to see strange people who are sometimes in bizarre clothes. Patient with CBS …show more content…
The group of people who had negative outcomes of CBS was more likely to have repeated, fear inducing and longer lasting hallucination episodes which some had affected their daily activities. Some of them also did not even realize the onset of CBS symptoms and they were more likely to assume that their hallucinations were caused by mental illness. These factors somehow can cause some of CBS patient to feel depressed, isolated from the social, anxiety or even worst can cause injury to