Hi everyone, I thought I was doing better but I don't see well since yesterday. I can't focus on things and whatever I look at is blurry but I don't think my eyesight is bad, it's rather an issue in the head caused by derealization.. Kind of like zoned out but even when derealization was at its worst my vision was sharp, now my vision is so weird and it really worries me. I want to ask if any of you deals with vision problems?
Blurred vision
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Oddly enough in my more connected moments my vision does go blurry. I wear corrective lenses but when catching these glimpses of reality, it's as though I need to have my glasses corrected. It's so strange what dissociation and derealization brings... haha
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Yeah, for me everything gets covered in grains and things leave light "stains" if i look away. When i'm reading the only thing that looks normal is maybe the word i'm currently at, everything else just kinda blurs away. Also moving my head and looking around feels all jerky and not countinous, like someone is editing away parts of what i see. I know for a fact that this is not just my eyes going bad because all of this gets worse whenever my DP/stress get worse too.
I've had all of these symptoms, plus darkened vision or sometimes it's bright (wild i know xD) and yeah, stress does worsen it. It sometimes happen when I spend too much time on my phone or laptop.
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I remember starting on a tricyclic antidepressant. I started experiencing side effects and I was unaware they were the result of the medication. An unexpected side effect was blurry vision. Cotton mouth was an expected side effect. I also experienced extreme night sweats that concerned me. I would later come to realize they were also the result of the medication. The things psychiatrists fail to tell you!
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How i can contact you personally? Have some questions to you
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I did. And you know something strange? I thought it was 100% related to DPD and exclusively psychological. Until this happened, at the height of my DPD I went for a routine eye exam and the doctor found significant pressure in my eyes which can be a sign of Glaucoma or other eye disease. They wanted to monitor me and I was asked to come back a year later. My DPD was in remission then and the pressure they saw at the last visit that was a concern was just simply gone. The doctor was very puzzled.
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