What mental disorders cause people to see things in black and white terms?
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People with Borderline Personality Disorder may view things in terms of black or white.  Alot of people with this disorder will see things and people as either all good or all bad.  They have difficulty recognizing the "gray areas".  Many tend to idealize or devalue another person.
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This is so true, as a photographer I feel you are a genious to notice what society is blind to, black and white pictures show lots of emotion and focus the point of the picture better.  Great question.
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im sorry but balck and white are not colours, but rather states describing the absence or presence of them all
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Certainly many people do have undignosed mental illness  \nThere is a web site I often refer people to for  simple decriptions of  kinds of mental illness art and decription by the late Don Tatro who was both a digital artist and a forensic Psychologist  his Psychopics might possible help give you in sight to the siruation with your father.\nhttp://dontatro.bryce-alive.net/psychopics.htm
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It's actually a medical condition known as synesthesia,  which is a phenomenon that triggers sense when another emotion or sense is felt.   I know some people that see colors when thinking about certain numbers. For example,  the number 6 tends to be blue (according to them). So don't be afraid because it is sort of a "gift", and it actually can help you understand music better.
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Black & white.\ncolourful dreams only very rarely.
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i think black and white
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There are different kinds of color blindness.  The most common is red/green.  This occurs when the chromosome that codes for how we see color is missing either the red or green gene or else there is a chimeric gene (it has both red and green on the same gene) that only allows one of the colors to be expressed. If the chromosome doesn't have both the red and green gene being properly expressed than the person will be red/green color blind.  This means that he/she will not be able to perceive red (if that is the gene missing) or green (if that is the missing gene) There are no drugs that can help this, because you are missing the gene -- there is no way to "fix" that.  Hope that helps.  :)
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sometimes depression is the issue. If that's the case, his perspective is distorted. It's like watching life through a pair of sun glasses. Everything seems grey and dark. He needs to realize it is not that way, and life is truly what you make of it, and what your willing to see out of it.
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Yes, if your relative was not diagnosed correctly, there are anti-depressants which can cause hallucinations for people with particular disorders. I would trust no one except a psychiatrist to do an evaluation now.
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It is because you perceive differently from others point of view.
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could also be schizophrenia
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The term is visual agnosia.  Visual agnosia is the inability of the brain to make sense of or make use of some part of otherwise normal visual stimulus, and is typified by the inability to recognize familiar objects or faces.\nFor example, you see a new model of a car, but if asked to draw it, you might not be able to do it because your brain didn't register it.\n\nI, however, believe that the mind tends to register everything, but that it tends to remember certain things, whereas tends to forget others.  For example, a person who sees beautiful women very frequently might not remember a beauty he saw some time ago and relegate the perception to the back of his mind, only to recall with difficulty, but another person whose mind is not so experienced with such perceptions might get infatuated (register it deeply).  This is just an example, there can be different types of visual agnosia.
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They defintely do not see black and white. \n\nAll mammals except primates (apes, monkeys and us humans) are color blind. Being color blind is not the same as seeing black and white, but not being able to see a channel of the color.
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cognitive disorder are conditions that cause difficulty and problems with memory,reasoning,judgment,perception
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Light greys and blues are considered calming colors, and thus, they put them with autism. A little dumb, but true.
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In the 1950s in Europe and the United States, it suddenly became popular to debate whether people dreamed in color or only in black and white. \n\nSome contended that we dream in black and white BUT REMEMBER OUR DREAMS IN COLOR —that is, we “paint them in” afterward. What is interesting about this debate is not the question itself but rather the time that the question came to be asked. The debate was popular in the late 1950s. Prior to this time, however, in all of the literature that exists that pertains to dreams, the question of color never came up. Freud did not raise it, nor did Jung or any other psychoanalyst of the early twentieth century. \n\nIf you have never seen a black-and-white world, it would be hard to imagine one—wouldn’t it? The cause for this debate appears to be the widespread diffusion of black-and-white television in the United States and Europe in the 1950s! It is true that people can dream in black and white; for that matter, there is no reason to discredit anyone’s claim to occasionally dreams in black and white—or purple, or Technicolor, or Day-Glo. Much as our brains effortlessly recreate our outside world with all of its vivid colors. so too can they recreate the black and white world we see in films, on television and in photographs. No one hears much about the black and white theory today. Most people have color TV sets. Now the only time we might dream in black and white is after spending long weekends watching old movies on cable.