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Mental Health for The Blind (self.Blind)
submitted by abhinav122
So I was searching for an online forum dealing with the mental health of the visually impaired, and to my surprise, I just found some articles detailing how serious this issue is but no such forum! Matter of fact other than this ($1) I did not even find any other forums for blind people in general.
Do you believe this is a problem that needs to be addressed? I felt that this is something that should be implemented by either therapists or maybe the existing organizations that are working towards the betterment of the blind and visually impaired so that therapy can be more widely accessible across the world?
Would really like to hear your opinions about this.
Amonwilde 6 points 2y ago
Honestly, a lot of sites listing resources for the blind are in a shocking state. There's definitely room for more websites listing resources and information for the blind, not just in mental health.
The_misfit_angel 3 points 2y ago
I definitely agree. Having any kind of a disability is such an isolating experience for so many reasons. I know people will try and argue with me on this, but from my own experience being born with no sight what so ever, I've found myself disenfranchised with society in general. Lock down definitely hasn't helped
brumeloss 3 points 2y ago
Yeah it's like "Oh! You're blind now? Okay! Learn to live with it then!"
When in reality, a lot of us struggle with mental health issues because the support isn't there. People fail to realize how devastating it is to lose your vision and expect you to be okay with it.
When in reality, a lot of us struggle with mental health issues because the support isn't there. People fail to realize how devastating it is to lose your vision and expect you to be okay with it.
EnVision8er 3 points 2y ago
Great post! I like you that you brought it up. As a person who has once been sighted and is now legally blind with a continuation of my degenerating vision, I know firsthand the mental toll that losing sight can take. I can't speak as someone who has been blind from birth, but for me, the majority of my struggles were mental and emotional and not so much physical. I want to do more research into the subject of blindness as it coincides mental health issues, particularly depression, anxiety, and stress. I think there is a strong case for more studies of mental health and blindness and comorbidity studies.
PeapodFroggie 2 points 2y ago
Yep!
Finding a therapist is also extremely difficult. There's only so far empathy alone can take them, and I gave up after just not having the emotional energy to continue educating therapists in order for them to be able to help me. Even non-blindness-related things are somewhat entwined in a lot of cases just because blindness has really affected the way I view and interact with the world, so I found it tough to get anything useful out of any therapist I ever worked with.
Finding a therapist is also extremely difficult. There's only so far empathy alone can take them, and I gave up after just not having the emotional energy to continue educating therapists in order for them to be able to help me. Even non-blindness-related things are somewhat entwined in a lot of cases just because blindness has really affected the way I view and interact with the world, so I found it tough to get anything useful out of any therapist I ever worked with.
The_misfit_angel 2 points 2y ago
I agree. I've tried so many different therapies at this point, and in the end they did little to no good for me. For me a lot of my depression was based on the fact that I wanted a normal life, but felt disempowered and stuck within the perceived limitations of my disability. I get that people who are blind can absolutely live a normal life, but blindness is all I've known personally, and I genuinely couldn't see a way of leveling out the playing field for myself, and talk therapy did nothing to help that, because at the end of the day none of them had any idea of what I felt, and of course, the nature of therapy is not to give practical advice.
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