Template:Adminpick/April 2018

I suffer with a condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome, or Visual Release Hallucinations if you want to get more technical.

It’s a condition that’s far more common than you might realise — it’s estimated that as many as half of people with gradual loss of vision will experience one or more bouts over their lifetime. Yet I’m willing to bet that most of you have never heard of it.

The reason for that is because most sufferers are scared to tell anybody what we experience. I know I was.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. My name is Andrew and I’m 26. Two years ago I woke up with awful blurred vision, every single edge and detail clouded as if somebody had smeared vaseline on a camera lens. It never got better. (Read more...)