... become blind AND deaf AND mute after a traumatic experience? If so, is it also possible to regain those senses with a 2nd trauma?
shareSupposedly you can lose senses if you're subjected to enough stress...although that's more of a hypothesis than a fact if I'm not mistaken.
shareI watched this last night, and had an app't with my doctor today, so asked him, as I was curious about this as well. He said he hadn't seen it himself, but knew the loss of a sense per trauma to be possible, especially in young children. However, he said that it was a "perceived" (imagined but "real") vs "actual" loss, and that mutism would be not a loss of an ability, but a reaction. And that the loss of two senses - sight and hearing, in this case - would be extremely rare.
For what that's worth!
I'd say it's also kind of like the "double head-bonk theory" in movies where characters get amnesia from getting hit in the head (which does happen), but then they get their memory BACK from being hit in the head AGAIN (which is pure medical nonsense). This is really just a variation on that rather Hollywood conceit.
"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"
The glaring question is why would anyone caring for a blind, deaf and mute decide to live in an apartment on the 4th floor with a balcony?
Pretty neat that Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julie from the Love Boat are in this.
I knew someone who had suffered from hysterical blindness. Doctors could not find anything physically wrong to explain it. She did recover naturally over a few months with No new trauma
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