Your Vision & How It Can Affect Mental Health (1/3)

Vision can not only cause major impacts on your physical health, but also on your mental health as well. There have been somewhat direct links towards how vision correlates with stress, traumatic experiences, and even with overall family history.

How Vision Can Cause An Effect On Mental Health

Due to certain types of diseases and impairments that can cause eye or vision problems, there are also an emotional element involved. Those who tend to suffer from either anxiety or depression can cause hindrances to one’s vision. This is generally seen with patients who have symptoms of glaucoma or cataracts and how it not only affects their vision and daily activities, but because of this effect alone causes the patient to feel they are at a loss of an independent state, causing emotional and mental issues;

However, with the help of many surgical practices such as LASIK surgery, they can help to alleviate and correct one’s vision. Despite this, there have been cases where it has been a considerable cause of depression.

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