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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 515868" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Hound has more direct experience than I do... but I've had friends all my life who were blind - one, literally, 100% blind, born without an optic nerve, the others variations on visually impaired (none will ever drive, for example... all are legally blind), ranging in age from early-teens, to 80s. One is a retired university prof. Another has lived all his life in the same area... first on the farm, then in the nearby town.</p><p></p><p>I think you're correct that the vision problems are not the main problem. The albino characteristics, alone, cause major social problems... The abuse/potential abuse from her other parent... is more likely the biggest single factor. Depression and anxiety feed off of interconnected problems. The vision challenges and physical characteristics made school more emotionally difficult... then you add in the problematic parent relationship, and things snowball from there. It also isn't uncommon for things to hold together for some period of time after a "problem" goes away... until the problem is far enough away that it is safe to react... (part of PTSD).</p><p></p><p>medications don't cure depression or anxiety. They can help put a person into a frame of mind to be open to and/or able to handle other forms of treatment (CBT etc.)... but it has to be a fit.</p><p></p><p>Sorry I don't have better answers...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 515868, member: 11791"] Hound has more direct experience than I do... but I've had friends all my life who were blind - one, literally, 100% blind, born without an optic nerve, the others variations on visually impaired (none will ever drive, for example... all are legally blind), ranging in age from early-teens, to 80s. One is a retired university prof. Another has lived all his life in the same area... first on the farm, then in the nearby town. I think you're correct that the vision problems are not the main problem. The albino characteristics, alone, cause major social problems... The abuse/potential abuse from her other parent... is more likely the biggest single factor. Depression and anxiety feed off of interconnected problems. The vision challenges and physical characteristics made school more emotionally difficult... then you add in the problematic parent relationship, and things snowball from there. It also isn't uncommon for things to hold together for some period of time after a "problem" goes away... until the problem is far enough away that it is safe to react... (part of PTSD). medications don't cure depression or anxiety. They can help put a person into a frame of mind to be open to and/or able to handle other forms of treatment (CBT etc.)... but it has to be a fit. Sorry I don't have better answers... [/QUOTE]
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