How Depression Affects Your Eyes

Depression is a recognized health issue that can diminish the immune system and organs in the body. Your eyes are no exception. Depression can affect your eyesight. While it’s never to a degree where the effects are permanently destructive, it’s still worth getting treatment over.

5 Ways Depression Can Affect Your Eyes

Depression can affect your eyes and vision in these ways:

1) In studies that focused on depression and vision, people who were more depressed often had a harder time seeing black or white, and instead would perceive black and white as gray. This was true for people who were on antidepressant pills and those who were not.

2) Blurred vision. When someone is overly stressed, it can also bring on a migraine, which can cause blurred vision as well.

3) Depression can cause people to be more sensitive to light.

4) Watery eyes and painful/strained eyes

5) Depressed people sometimes see more “eye floaters”. These are the spots that people see in their vision when their eyes are either opened or closed.

How to Prevent Depression From Affecting Your Vision

If you’re worried about depression altering your vision, it’s important to take some precautionary measures. These can include exercises, adopting new ways of thinking, and possibly medications.

An optometrist can only do so much for people who are suffering from medical depression, but they can recommend other doctors who can help fix the problem. There’s no need to let an issue that can be resolved affect the rest of the body unnecessarily.

If you’ve always had normal vision and you’re noticing that you aren’t seeing colors very well, a doctor may prescribe further testing for depression.

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