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I have had irritated eyes for about a week and I have started over worrying about going blind. I wake up and they are fine and they seem to get worse about 3pm some days I get the irritated corner..more a watery bit and it sticks around and I rub it or feel tired and it blurs..I've still to try a tea bag on them.
But it doesn't help me worrying I'll go blind. The more I worry the more I become a mist :blush:
nomorepanic
28-11-10, 00:57
The best thing you do is see an optician for reassurance but it is highly unlikely that you are going blind to be honest.
Hi
My anxiety has always manifested itself in my eyes, this long before I realised I had anxiety. My eyes feel swollen and gritty and there is a need to keep them closed. I have my eyes tested regularly (Every two years) as I do wear glasses for certain situations and on one occasion saw an eye specialist for a thorough examination. The crux is though that apart from age related need for glasses there is nothing wrong with my eyes – just anxiety.
Get them tested for peace of mind and try to forget about them.
I can still see but I'm annoyed because my eyes are so watery and misty. It's just uncomfortable as when I wake up I'm fine..soon as I start to think the symptom appears it's not even really as irritated now just more that water spot in the corner causing the annoyance in the day. :shrug:
I read eye problems is on the symptoms page and just anxiety but I'm obsessed of going blind even though I can see..it doesn't matter what the symptom is it cripples me and makes me want to stay in my bed with worry. :weep:
Is there any way to stop worrying about my eyes? It's kind of took over my day and I wait for these symptoms to come. :unsure:
i have the exact same fear. i fret and panic about going blind, i wear glasses and they get smudged and as soon as i see a smudge my anxiety flares up and i panic im going blind, im due an eye test and have been putting it off but my fear is starting to ease. my anxiety goes through patterns and its starting to move away from the blind fear now. the bestthing you can do is to try and ignore your eye symptoms and tell yourself it is just anxiety, also get your eyes checked just so someone proffesional can tell you your ok. that should help :)
My biggest fear too. Its part of the fear of losing control. If you are blind, you cannot communicate with the world again. You are blindfolded. The best thing to realise is that you don't just "go blind". You would know if there was anything wrong with your vision; either that or you would have been born with blindness. If you fear bats you won't grow wings and fangs!
My biggest fear too. Its part of the fear of losing control. If you are blind, you cannot communicate with the world again. You are blindfolded. The best thing to realise is that you don't just "go blind". You would know if there was anything wrong with your vision; either that or you would have been born with blindness. If you fear bats you won't grow wings and fangs!
Yes that's totally it.
I feel right now I will lose control..whilst feeling "I am blind" but wow I can see :ohmy: It's all down to a fear of not being able to support myself due to reading stuff like "failing eyes" "inability to support yourself so get locked up" so I have these insecurities like what if I give up washing? what if I stop eating? some how forget how to eat? It's a crazy worry.
It just feels like this anxiety is never ending. When I feel this bad I just want to sit and mope about in my bed. :blush:
I wish I could chill..I worry my brain will send a signal to stop my eyes reading what's ahead and I'll go crazy? :ohmy:
I wish I could chill..I worry my brain will send a signal to stop my eyes reading what's ahead and I'll go crazy? :ohmy:
you wont go crazy, not at all. :bighug1:
A few weeks ago I posted about my veins in my head..I'd wake up feeling it if I thought it..
Now these eyes have took over as an obsession..I woke up with smudgy eyes thinking I was crazy and blind..and I'm obsessed over it all day. I feel my brain is saying I'm blind so I'm constantly aware of my eyes and they go dull and twitchy...so rather than going blind I'm worried that my brain will give up that sense and just some how make me blind? :huh: I hate when it's this bad as it takes over me...
When I get a symptom these days I wake up with it and it lasts all day and I feel safe in bed.. I can see but some how my brain says I can't and I'm constantly aware of these eyes..every twitch. Right now I fear next week..what area of the body will it focus on next week? How bad will it make me feel?
I don't trust myself..can you make yourself blind thinking of it in the brain? Like people who can walk from pushing themselves if they get injured can you do the same in reverse make yourself blind and ill?
Seems no escape! :blush:
No no no no no phil phil phil you cannot make yourself go blind that is physically impossible. Or all people in wheel chairs would be getting up and walking. If we had the power to inflict deseases on ourselves the world would be a very strange place.
The fact is it takes an injury or you are born with it.
With anxiety, it is in your mind which is in no relation to your brain, nerves or eyes. Emotions have set symptoms eg. shaking, tummy trouble, sweating.
I had a MASSIVE phobia of tetanus for about a year or two. Every time my jaw twitched I thought I had contracted tetanus. I was twitching and spasming because of my anxiety. I could make myself feel ill in my mind but I could not instruct myself to become ill.
Many people on this forum have heart phobias or allergy phobias, but their hearts don't just give up do they? People who fear they are going crazy, on the subject, are LEAST likely to go mad. And also, you won't go mad without an injury or being born with a mental problem.
People who make themselves walk, as you say, have the ability somewhere in their nerbvous system to regain their legs, which they wouldn't have if thier legs were chopped off.
But now I'm going to contradict myself and give another idea. The thing is, maybe you should accept that you are/will go blind however impossible. The only two ways to be happy in life are acceptance and ignorance. So as you are not ignorant, you must accept your fear as a possibilty (even though this one is mostly impossible). Try to figure out how you would cope and hopefully you will one day realise that being blind could be fun and bearable. I eventually, after fearing things like tetanus and menengitis, completely dispelled my fears by telling myself I could deal with it. And I could! If I was ill, I don't know how but I would find ways to cope!
You may think that being blind would be impossible to bear, but you don't know what it would be like. When you were young, you thought you would never grow up right? Well we all grew up! And we coped ok. Accept your fear and tell yourself how strong you are and how you can and WILL deal with it and it doesnt matter what happens to you because thats life.
And one more point. If you think about an eventuality, it will not happen in that way, in all possibilty. If someone brings you a cake, you could have 10 million people predicting what it will look like but not one will correctly exactly picture the cake because it is just too much of a coincidence to predict the future. So you won't go blind because you have thought about it but you might have a fatal car crash if you havent thoght about it. Right! Class dismissed.
I have been worrying about this again but no eye symptoms they have gone. Basically the world does not seen real to my eyes from suffering depersonalization. I realise my eyes function okay but when I look around I get thoughts like my eyes are bit taking it all in and sometimes I have to squeeze my eyes shut due to dull vision.
I've come to a logic my anxiety hacks created a tension in my eyes. Like you believe you are blind so even though you can see you feel you're not seeing? Does that make sense?
staffordshirebull
23-01-11, 19:15
My daughter constantly worries about going blind :unsure: she worries about everything all the time :weep:
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