This is right on top as my numero uno symptom of dp/dr in terms of limitations. I had to drop out of grad school (before I really got started) becasue of it and have had to work outdoors my whole life due to my inability to function in an office or even a warehouse setting. I have quit two professional jobs because of it. What happens is that I immediately get very lethargic, spacey and zombie like while under these lights. I can't concentrate, my vision gets blurred and static like and all in all I jsut feel a need to get the hell out of there.
I truly wish I knew the reason for this. I am yet to hear a definitive answer. One reason told to me was that this light offers too much stimualtion at a time when our defenses..due to anxiety...are in full gear and we cannot handle it...or something like that. My question is why then can I be the calmest dude in the world with not a dp/dr symtpom in my body at the time and walk into a library and 5 minutes later I am a basket case.
It is not jsut flourescents for me, incandescent does it as well...but not as much.
What is interesting about reading under artificial lighting is that yes things seem too bright etc. but the major problem is the inability to have the words"stick" on my brain when I am symptomatic from the lights. Not a visual problem there..but something else.
I cannot even play a game of whist with my family at the kitchen table in the evenings. Figure.
Some people have mentioned full spectrum lighting as helpful, but it never worked for me. It would indeed help to know what is the issue, what causes this, in order to know what to do. I know anxiety is not THE issue for me...or at least it seems...but it is the lights. I hope someone can help answer this, even if they have been over it a thousand times. Maybe even someone should make their answer a sticky.
jft
I truly wish I knew the reason for this. I am yet to hear a definitive answer. One reason told to me was that this light offers too much stimualtion at a time when our defenses..due to anxiety...are in full gear and we cannot handle it...or something like that. My question is why then can I be the calmest dude in the world with not a dp/dr symtpom in my body at the time and walk into a library and 5 minutes later I am a basket case.
It is not jsut flourescents for me, incandescent does it as well...but not as much.
What is interesting about reading under artificial lighting is that yes things seem too bright etc. but the major problem is the inability to have the words"stick" on my brain when I am symptomatic from the lights. Not a visual problem there..but something else.
I cannot even play a game of whist with my family at the kitchen table in the evenings. Figure.
Some people have mentioned full spectrum lighting as helpful, but it never worked for me. It would indeed help to know what is the issue, what causes this, in order to know what to do. I know anxiety is not THE issue for me...or at least it seems...but it is the lights. I hope someone can help answer this, even if they have been over it a thousand times. Maybe even someone should make their answer a sticky.
jft
