Charles Bonnet Syndrome Foundation (Australia)

"No-one told me I may end up seeing things that aren't really there."

"How can that butterfly be so vivid when I can't even see my daughter's face?"

"I'm legally blind so why am I seeing animals in stunning detail?"

"I didn’t know what was happening to me. Was this the start of dementia?"

"This weird figure appears almost daily but I know it is not real."

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"The squares start at the floorboards and rise like blue lanterns."

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) first released a position statement re Charles Bonnet Syndrome in 2014. This was updated in November 2018.

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