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I’ve noticed a correlation between my depression getting stronger on days I don’t put my contact lenses in. Granted, if I’m not putting my contacts in I’m not
by wyre 4y ago
I’ve noticed a correlation between my depression getting stronger on days I don’t put my contact lenses in. Granted, if I’m not putting my contacts in I’m not leaving the house but it’s an interesting correlation nonetheless.
I think it comes from not being able to experience the world in full clarity. There’s a strong relationship with tinnitus and depression for what I’d think are similar reasons.
- cma 4y agoAnd cataracts, though I heard that was possibly from yellowing causing lack of blue light and affecting circadian rythym.
- silisili 4y agoI kinda noticed this myself. As a young child, I had perfect vision. Apparently sometime by middle school my vision started declining. But, I really didn't know it. I mean, I could generally read the blackboard, all good right? But everything was so...drab. Finally saw an eye doc and caved on getting glasses. Wow what a difference. The first thing I noticed was that I could see blades of grass, and leaves on trees, and hairs on squirrels. They're not just green or brown blobs afterall. And people...they looked so different. Some better, some worse. I could see hairs, and wrinkles, and subtle visual cues I'd been missing. I must have spent 2 weeks just amazed at the world I'd been missing out on. So while not clinically depressed or anything, I can confidently say the world is more depressing when it's blurry.
- scotty79 4y agoWhen I got glasses as a kid everything became unbearably sharp. It took some time to adjust to being attacked all the time by so many details I wasn't interested in.
- prawn 4y agoSeeing the grass across the road from the optometrist when I tried on the test glasses was a very memorable moment for me as a teenager. Couldn't believe things could look so sharp!
- a9h74j 4y agoFoF report I once heard: "I didn't know the trees had leaves."
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