Jewel Shuping - after self-inflicted blindness
I remember reading about Jewel Shuping a couple of
months back and her absurd story has stayed with me, haunting me, ever since. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-arranges-for-psychologist-to-pour-drain-cleaner-in-her-eyes-after-fantasising-about-being-a6676546.html)
Apparently Jewel Shuping, of North Carolina, said
she was diagnosed with Body Integrity Identity
Disorder, a psychological condition where healthy people believe they are meant
to be disabled.
Ms. Shuping said that her fascination with blindness
began when she was about 6 years old, claiming, “By the time I was six I
remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable,” she told
Barcroft TV.
As a teen Shuping said she began wearing thick,
black sunglasses and walking with a cane. By the age of 20, she was even fluent
in braille.
In 2006, Ms. Shuping said she found a
psychologist willing to pour drain cleaner in her eyes to help her fulfill her
wish to become blind. The psychologist reportedly first poured numbing eye
drops into each of Ms. Shuping’s eyes, followed by two drops of drain cleaner.
Ms. Shuping told the agency the
process was extremely painful and that took around six months for the
damage to fully take effect.
Shuping’s mother and sister are no longer speaking
to her.
“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be
born, that I should have been blind from birth,” Shuping said. “When
there’s nobody around you who feels the same way, you start to think that
you’re crazy. But I don’t think I’m crazy, I just have a disorder.”
No, take it from me Jewel, you’re
crazy alright!...AND so’s the “psychologist”
who blinded you!
The psychologist was not named and it
is not known if they are facing prosecution. Well, that “psychologist” SHOULD BE prosecuted and Ms. Shuping SHOULD’VE been given therapy to correct
her condition...NOT embrace it.
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