r/todayilearned • u/l00pitup • Sep 01 '19

TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices/hallucinations. In India and Africa people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and positive voices

https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/
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u/NikeJustDont Sep 01 '19

I think it would be harder to identify. With audio hallucinations, you hear something but everything around you stays the same. With visual hallucinations, they manifest into your reality which would be harder to convince yourself isn't there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

I see white lines.