DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2023.v11i04.084

Pages: 754-755

Deafness is a pathological state of hearing characterized by a partial or total loss of sound perception. It is much more common than previously suspected. Many psychiatric disorders have been associated with deafness, including depression, schizophrenia and other psychoses, anxiety, and neurocognitive disorders. We report the case of a 25-year-old patient who is known to be deaf diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The effect of deafness on mental health is surprisingly overlooked. Early studies of psychiatric patients suggested that hearing loss is an important cause of paranoid illness, but more recent studies of larger populations have failed to confirm this association. The most common diagnoses in deaf people are mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.