Posted on 10/01/2015 10:46:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after she fulfilled her lifelong wish of becoming blind.
Jewel Shuping, 30, has Body Integrity Identity Disorder, according to Barcroft TV.
BIID is a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled.
She told Barcroft TV that her fascination with blindness started when she was a child.
By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable, she said.
Shuping says that when she was a teenager, she started wearing thick black sunglasses, and even got her first cane when she was 18.
By the age of 20, Shuping says she was fluent in braille.
I was blind-simming, which is pretending to be blind, but the idea kept coming up in my head and by the time I was 21 it was a non-stop alarm that was going off, she told Barcroft TV.
Her need to lose her sight increased as she got older, and by 2006, she claims she found a psychologist who was willing to help her.
Shuping says the psychologist put numbing eye drops into her eyes, and then a couple of drops of drain cleaner.
It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin, she said. But all I could think was I am going blind, it is going to be okay.
The woman says it took about half a year for the damage to take full effect.
When I woke up the following day I was joyful, until I turned on to my back and opened my eyes I was so enraged when I saw the TV screen, she told Barcroft TV.
One of her eyes eventually had to be removed, her other eye had glaucoma and cataracts, Barcroft TV reports.
Shuping says she originally told her family it was an accident, but they later found out the truth.
She says her mother and sister have since cut contact.
She told Barcroft TV that she has no regrets and that she hopes to help other blind people live an independent life.
I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth, she said. When theres nobody around you who feels the same way, you start to think that youre crazy. But I dont think Im crazy, I just have a disorder.
According to Barcroft TV, Shuping is hoping her story will help raise public awareness of BIID and encourage people with the condition to seek professional help.
Body Integrity Identity Disorder - you have a disorder all right, a mental disorder. You belong in a mental hospital.
the psychologist put numbing eye drops into her eyes, and then a couple of drops of drain cleaner. - which makes the psychologist a criminal
I don’t know what to say other than there’s something seriously wrong with her. Similar to those who are deaf and want their kids to be deaf, too. Google the videos of people getting cochlear implants and hearing for the first time in their lives. IT is amazing to see and VERY moving.
She’s got a cut or a bruise on her head, too.
I really hope we can find safe places for these people to urinate as well.
In the meantime, psychiatry for other purposes is criminalized.
No dear, you really ARE crazy and now you are blind and someone will have to take care of you for the rest of your life.
“The psychologist needs to be named and prosecuted.”
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I can’t imagine a licensed psychologist doing this. Probably some hack from a third world country.
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I dont blame her, probably was sick of looking in a mirror.
A disgusting crime against God.
No, she used a cheese grater to comb her hair.
The only reason I read this article was to see how she managed to accomplish her goal. I was rather hoping that somewhat she just went blind. I was open to her mutilating herself because I've read how people who think they were "born to be" amputees mutilated their limbs. I never expected she would be able to find anyone -- much less a "healing professional" who would pour Draino in her eyes.
She isn't the only one "with a disorder."
I might need eye bleach myself after that.
My bet is the “psychologist” to wanted give her silicone
injections with body filler too.
I believe it. We have a whole slew of psychologists who believe it is better to acquiesce to the demands of a psychological disorder than to find a way for the person who is suffering to live a happy, normal life. And it goes back many decades.
Gender reassignment surgeries were first done at John Hopkins in the 1960s based upon the belief that it would be psychologically more effective to mutilate someone suffering from transgenderism than to treat them psychologically.
John Hopkins did a large longitudinal study on the patients who were treated both ways and they found that those who had gender reassignment surgeries were worse off psychologically than those who received psychological counseling and treatment. So John Hopkins did the ethical thing and stopped all surgeries.
But many psychologists still persist in the belief that we can adapt our bodies to a unstable mind in order to allow for happiness and fulfillment. But it isn’t a body issue. Never is. Never will be.
This woman will never be happy and fulfilled as a blind woman. She will feel the thrill of victory for a while, maybe a couple of years, but then she will develop more and more trouble adjusting to who she is.
She needed counseling and psychotherapy, not drops of drain cleaner in her eyes.
I once had a buddy go into a strip club pretending to be blind. Pulled it off nicely.
Why not just get a really tight blindfold? Crazy.
Judging from her picture, she would have been better off just hiding her mirrors.
Fucking psychotic...She should have swallowed some. I am going to find her and start throwing stuff in front of her. How many blind people in this world who would give anything to see...
It appears she still has a healthy appetite.
“Shuping says the psychologist put numbing eye drops into her eyes, and then a couple of drops of drain cleaner. “
This doctor needs to be disbarred and charged with felonies!!!
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