Turkish Journal of Psychiatry 2011 Depression and anxiety levels and self-concept characteristics of adolescents with congenital complete visual impairment • Nurullah BOLAT1‚ Burak DOĞANGÜN2‚ Mesut YAVUZ3‚ Türkay DEMİR4‚ Levent KAYAALP5 SUMMARY Objective: Previous studies have reported that visual impairment can affect the mental health of children and adolescents. The aim of this study is to investigate the depression and anxiety levels and the self-concept characteristics of adolescents
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can light the life of a blind person by donating our eyes after our death? In India‚ we have an estimated 4.6 million people with corneal blindness that is curable through corneal transplantation made possible by eye donation. More than 90% of the corneal transplantation is carried out successfully and helps restore vision in people with corneal blindness. Corneal transplantation in infants born with cloudy cornea can make a big difference to their lives. The C U Shah Eye Bank at SANKARA NETHRALAYA
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stress that "[His] idea of blindness came from the movies.". He uses the pop cultural reference to blind people to excuse his ignorance‚ but all he shows to the audience is that he knows only of fictional blind people and has to base his opinion on his visitor from that (Carver 106). With him being a honest character‚ he does reveal what is truly bothering him is his jealousy of Robert‚ but initially this information is clouded by the narrator’s obsession with Robert’s blindness. From that we can actually
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Spanish rulers until an earthquake redesigned the surrounding mountains and cut it off forever from future explorers. The isolated community prospered over the years despite a disease that struck them early on‚ rendering all new-borns blind. As the blindness slowly spread over the generations‚ their remaining senses sharpened‚ and by the time the last sighted villager had died‚ the community had fully adapted to life without sight. Nunez descends into the valley and finds an unusual village with windowless
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friend and therefore he’s sarcastically and ironically by saying that it’s amazing. It seems that the narrator is socially incompetent and all the things he had heard of blind people he bases on things that he has heard from movies:” My idea of blindness came from movies” (l. 8). Also the fact that his wife is
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protagonist lives‚ is "blind‚" "silent‚" and "sombre‚" with "dark muddy lanes" and houses that "gazed at eachother with brown imperturbable faces." This atmosphere provides a marked contrast with the protagonist’s youthful energy and vitality‚ but the blindness is echoed in the attitude of his aunt and uncle. On the evening that the boy was planning to visit the bazaar‚ his uncle forgets about the plans‚ so by the time he arrives home it is almost too late for the boy to make the journey. The priest‚
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Reality and truth are both so hackneyed in a commonplace manner with over-lapping ideas that they each lose their own individuality. Reality is a subjective value that reflects what characterizes our world‚ whether it is our individual world or the world as a whole‚ and its conditions. Oliver Sacks’ "The Mind’s Eye: What the Blind See" and Tim O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story" bring the relationship of truth and reality into question. O’Brien openly uses the thin line between truth and reality
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Pathophysiology of Glaucoma – Glaucoma is “a disease of the eye in which fluid pressure within the eye rises - if left untreated the patient may lose vision‚ and even become blind. The disease generally affects both eyes‚” Medical News Today (2012). The anterior chamber is a small space located in front of the eye. Clear fluid (aqueous humor) flows in and out of this chamber‚ as the fluid flows it nourishes and bathes nearby tissues. Persons who suffer from glaucoma have problem with this fluid.
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Impairment (CVI)‚ a temporary or permanent visual impairment‚ results in a disturbance of the posterior visual pathways and/or the occipital lobes of the brain. The visual impairment can range from a severe visual impairment to complete and total blindness‚ and the severity normally depends upon the time of onset‚ the location‚ and the intensity. The condition indicates that the visual systems of the brain do not consistently understand or interpret what the eyes see. Cortical Visual Impairment can
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of those who are blind lose vision after age 20.”(Mahoney‚2008) Limitations of sight cover a large spectrum from people with slight vision problems to people with complete loss of vision. “In many persons‚ blindness is secondary to a primary condition that may have been the cause of the blindness and in itself may be disabling.” (Wilkins) When having a loss of one of your senses‚ your other senses become stronger. There are many accommodations you can make to help a patient with disabilities feel
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