Woman desperate to be blind had drain cleaner poured in eyes

North Carolina – A 30-year old woman named Jewel Shuping, has accomplished her life-long dream of being blind by arranging with her psychologist to pour drain cleaner into her eyes. So, she did the only rational thing: She got a sympathetic psychologist to pour drain cleaner in her eyes. The process was reportedly extremely painful.

“I laid down on the sofa, and he sat next to me, dropped two drops into each eye”, she says matter-of-factly.

“I don’t think I’m insane, I think I have a disorder”, explained Shuping in a video interview with Barcroft TV.

She was taken to a hospital where doctors tried to restore her vision – much against her wishes – but by that time, her eyes had been permanently damaged.

A woman believing that was suppoed to be blind has found sympathy from a psychologist who chose to help her out by pouring drain cleaner into her eyes.

Her left eye suffered a “corneal meltdown” – collapsing in on itself and requiring the eye to be removed – while her right eye had glaucoma and cataracts, and a webbing of scars.

When she was a teenager she started wearing thick black sunglasses and got her first white cane aged 18 before becoming fully fluent in braille by the age of 20.

Now, she’s taken her story public in order to help people comprehend that decision, as well as reach out to others who might be dealing with the same sort of pain she once knew intimately.

However, while she is happier living as a blind person, she doesn’t recommend what she went through.

“By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable”, she says.

It’s commonly manifested by a desire to have an amputation of a specific body part – in most cases, the limb is completely healthy. It’s very very risky. Ever since she was a little girl, Shuping fantasized about being blind and felt she wasn’t complete because she could see. “That’s why I’m getting my story out there to help people understand BIID, and what it is and what it’s not”.

Dr. Michael First, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, said there is no known cure for BIID, as with many psychiatric conditions.

Due to persistent simulation of blindness, experts diagnosed her with BIID.

“These people are aware that this feeling of theirs is unusual – they know it is coming from within them. And every time I do something, it feels right, like this is how it should’ve been since I was born”, he said.

‘This is not a choice, it’s a need based on a disorder of the brain’.