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Ferdinand Keller 

A blind woman left doctors stunned when she could suddenly see again after ‘switching personalities’.

The German patient, referred to only as B.T., was diagnosed with so-called cortical blindness after an accident damaged the part of her brain responsible for sight when she was 20. The now 37-year-old also has a condition known as dissociative identity disorder (DID), where multiple personalities battle to control her personality.

In total, she has 10 personalities, doctors treating her reported. And it was during treatment for this disorder that something remarkable happened.While she was in her teenage boy personality, her ability to see returned.Incredibly, over the course of the therapy, she regained her sight while in eight out of ten of her personalities.The woman’s vision turned on and off ‘within seconds’, depending on which personality she was experiencing, the doctors treating her reported in PsyCh Journal. (Source)

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