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I have anxiety. past month i've been dealing with issues, light sensitivity, eye pain, eye discomfort, eye irritation, eye strain, and eye fatigued. saw an optometrist & ophthalmologist, found dry eyes, but keep getting thoughts i'm going blind? help

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Physical & therapy: While the reassurance of these doctors makes it most likely that your eyes are ok, You should have a general med check up to be sure you don't have any underlying medical problem. The next step would be to see a psychiatrist to explore what underlying psychological issues might be creating these symptoms. Therapy often is quite helpful sometimes with anti-anxiety medication short term.

Answered 7/21/2015

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Anxiety: The stressors that create anxiety can also result in a wide variety of physical symptoms. If the specialists have done good evals and found no concern, recommend you see a Psychologist expert in treating anxiety disorders. Key issue is what started the anxiety-that is what needs to be addressed as anxiety is just a symptom, like a fever might be a symptom of infection. Recommend EMDR Certified the

Answered 5/12/2016

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Beginning to sound: like hypochondriasis. That's when you think you have a medical condition, obsess over it, but don't really have anything physically wrong. You could have other kinds of anxiety (GAD, phobia, panic, etc.) but you'd have to go to a psychologist for an eval. Here's a beginning reference on anxiety: http://www.psychologyproductsandservices.com/page2.html

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