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Psychological complexities of visual restoration
In this paper, we report the psychological and emotional experience of a patient who regained vision after over a decade of vision loss. The negative psychological implications of blindness are well recognised and there is a robust link between visual impairment and low mood and depressive symptoms....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7802677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33431454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-237603 |
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author | Dickens, Paris Miller, David Ramaesh, Kanna |
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description | In this paper, we report the psychological and emotional experience of a patient who regained vision after over a decade of vision loss. The negative psychological implications of blindness are well recognised and there is a robust link between visual impairment and low mood and depressive symptoms. Although uncommon, low mood and depressive symptoms have been reported in patients whose sight has been restored, and lack of research gives rise to the possibility their prevalence may be grossly under-recognised in such patient groups. The effects can be so severe that patients may revert to living in darkness in mimicry of their previous lifestyle, effectively obviating the sight-restoring surgery. Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to address this traditionally neglected need by facilitating social, psychological and medical interventions that may ease the return to vision. |
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spelling | pubmed-78026772021-01-21 Psychological complexities of visual restoration Dickens, Paris Miller, David Ramaesh, Kanna BMJ Case Rep Case Report In this paper, we report the psychological and emotional experience of a patient who regained vision after over a decade of vision loss. The negative psychological implications of blindness are well recognised and there is a robust link between visual impairment and low mood and depressive symptoms. Although uncommon, low mood and depressive symptoms have been reported in patients whose sight has been restored, and lack of research gives rise to the possibility their prevalence may be grossly under-recognised in such patient groups. The effects can be so severe that patients may revert to living in darkness in mimicry of their previous lifestyle, effectively obviating the sight-restoring surgery. Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to address this traditionally neglected need by facilitating social, psychological and medical interventions that may ease the return to vision. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7802677/ /pubmed/33431454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-237603 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Dickens, Paris Miller, David Ramaesh, Kanna Psychological complexities of visual restoration |
title | Psychological complexities of visual restoration |
title_full | Psychological complexities of visual restoration |
title_fullStr | Psychological complexities of visual restoration |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological complexities of visual restoration |
title_short | Psychological complexities of visual restoration |
title_sort | psychological complexities of visual restoration |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7802677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33431454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-237603 |
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