In this article we'll talk O psychosomatic reasons poor eyesight, and some recommendations will also be given for changing the ways of thinking that caused the deterioration of vision.

Our eyes are not just one of the senses, they are completely responsible for our perception and vision of things both around us and in ourselves. Eyes - represent the ability to clearly see the past, present and future. If vision is impaired, the perception of reality and oneself as they are is impaired. Visual impairment is a reluctance to see or notice certain things around you (myopia) or in yourself (farsightedness), as well as in life in general. Psychosomatic causes of poor vision

Aggressive emotions such as hatred, anger, anger accumulate in the soul, and they create problems with the eyes, because the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Such people are prevented from seeing the good by their pride and stubbornness. They do not understand that they see bad things in their world only because they look at the world through the prism of their aggressive emotions. There is only one way out - to clear your perception of negative thinking, patterns and prejudices, then the world will become a better place. Create a world for yourself that you would enjoy looking at.

The eyes are the place where sadness is released. Vision problems occur when sadness is not fully expressed. Therefore, the eyes get sick both in those who cry constantly and in those who never cry. When people reproach their eyes because they see only one unpleasant thing, the foundation of eye disease is laid.

Poor vision is a direct consequence of a suppressed desire not to see something and (or) someone. Deterioration of vision is a signal (metaphor, message) that the need and need not to see something or someone has become unbearable, and there is no way to satisfy it (i.e., to avoid a harmful stimulus).

By losing his sight, a person receives a “secondary benefit” for this, that is, he gains the opportunity not to see closely what he does not want to see, and over time this develops into the benefit of not doing something (for example, doing small work with farsightedness). He cannot (or rather does not allow himself) to manage his life in such a way that the stimulus disappears from his field of vision, so by weakening his vision he facilitates the psychological experience (compensation occurs).

Forced to see what he does not want to see, a person creates a contradiction between parts of his experience (good vision on the one hand and “bad” psychological vision on the other) - and his good eyesight equates to "bad" psychological vision"(synchronization).

And, finally, it is obvious that a person thereby generates in his mind rigid programs of “bad” visual experience (it manifests itself in the words: “I don’t want to see you”, “get out of my sight”, “my eyes would not see you” , “and don’t show yourself to me”, “seeing you is sickening”, “it hurts to look at all this” and so on and so forth).

It is no coincidence that, according to statistics, young people’s vision deteriorates, as a rule, with a minus sign (myopia or myopia), and in older people – with a plus sign (farsightedness). Older people have a lot of past, and in the past there is a lot of pain, disappointments, mistakes and everything that you really don’t want to see in yourself. And for young people it is fear of “prospects”, fear of the future.

Another reason for visual impairment is related to the establishment of a forced physical boundary at viewing distance. Such boundaries are the walls of houses, fences, books, monitor and TV screens, etc. (there are even studies confirming that the more densely populated a city is and the less space there is (a house literally stands on top of a house), the statistically worse vision its inhabitants).

There is always an obstacle in front of your eyes on which you focus your gaze. The eyes, encountering constant obstacles, are trained to see only up to a certain distance ( ordinary person, waking up, does not see further than the walls, going out into the street immediately directs his eyes to his feet, public transport looks at a book, at work at a monitor, and in reverse order).

The eyes of many are simply not trained to look beyond a few meters (that’s why, when working with a vision restoration system, I insist not only on completely abandoning glasses, but also on relieving the eyes as much as possible). This distance is established unconsciously by the person himself in order to isolate himself from something external (for example, not to see real world further than your book, TV or computer game).

Visual impairment can also be associated with the type and style of thinking. In addition to our eyes, we have another type of “eye” that is capable of seeing at any distance and overcoming any obstacles, which see equally well both at night and during the day. These “eyes” are our mind.

The mind is able to simulate visual sensations without any connection with what is in at the moment time is seen by our own eyes. A person who reads a lot, dreams of an unrealistic, fantasy future, or often draws pictures of the past, constantly generates visual pictures in your head, which are not in reality (not here and now). Over time his eyes ( physical vision), in fact, become a sensory rudiment of psychological vision. True visual function it is constantly suppressed, roughly speaking, as unnecessary, and vision deteriorates.

People who live all the time “here and now” have very little chance of spoiling their eyesight, because most of the time they use only physiological vision, and very little - psychological vision, so to speak.

This was a summary of several of the most adequate theories of visual impairment. And now, for convenience, I will analyze each of the cases of weakened vision separately. Myopia

With myopia, a person does not see far, but sees well near - this means that the person is concentrated on himself and on his immediate surroundings. People with myopia, as a rule, find it difficult (or scary) to look into the future, make long-term plans (that is, they do not see a picture of their life in a year, five, ten years), and it is difficult for them to predict the consequences of their actions.

In this case, a person needs to develop the skill of constructing his long-term plans, and in addition, expand the scope of his interests to a larger area (for example, begin to be interested in world events, etc.)

In the case of farsightedness, people experience fear of the future, the inability to perceive it objectively, distrust of what awaits them ahead, a feeling of constant danger, wariness, and hostility of the world towards them. Such people do not see the future.

In addition, myopia develops in people who are prone to generalization and schematization of reality. Those of its realities that do not fit into their logical structure are ignored.

Myopia often affects people who are too focused on themselves and have difficulty perceiving other people’s ideas (they see and perceive only ideas that are “close” to them in spirit, and those that are “far away” do not see, do not perceive, and do not make room for them in the world). They have a limited outlook.

Myopia can also mean fixation on the external, on form, on the superficial, the presence of rigid stereotypes of perception that interfere with the objective perception of reality.

“Nearsighted” people judge other people all the time, but they themselves literally cannot see beyond their own noses. They don't like what they see around them, they don't notice any of it beautiful world, no beautiful people, but they see only the negative, which is why they unconsciously chose “not to see” (there is nothing to look at, there is nothing good there). In fact, what myopic people don’t like about the world and people around them is simply a reflection of their own behavior.

The psychological causes of visual impairment can also be determined based on the period in which it began to fall:

For example, some people develop myopia in early school or preschool age. The reasons are that in their home, in their family, in their parents’ relationships, there is always a lot of negativity - quarrels, screaming, even beatings. It is painful for a child to see this, because for him parents are the closest people, and he himself cannot influence the situation. And as psychological protection his eyes weaken, myopia helps him dull the pain, “not seeing” what is happening. This is one of the reasons.

There is also the opposite option. For example, at home, before school or kindergarten, a harmonious atmosphere reigns in the child’s family, kind and respectful relationships between parents, the child receives love and support. Having become accustomed to such an attitude, he ends up in a team where the conditions are completely different - no one loves him just like that, he has to fulfill certain conditions in order to achieve a good attitude from teachers and friendship from classmates.

The model of the world that he learned in his family turns out to be completely different from the “big” world, and he himself turns out to be unprepared for reality. The child does not want to put up with what he now sees, experiences stress, pain. As a result, this leads to the fact that he develops myopia - and he can clearly see only what is next to him, fencing himself off from the injustice and cruelty around him.

For many, vision deterioration occurs during puberty. Teenagers are faced with the topic of self-identification with their gender and, accordingly, many fears arise regarding these issues: what boys look like as men, and girls as women, whether they will succeed as partners and whether they will be chosen as partners, etc., if It is very difficult for a teenager to look into the above areas, as a result, vision decreases.

Such teenagers are afraid to become adults, because they are alarmed and frightened by what they see in the world of adults (example: they do not like the lifestyle of the adults who surround them, they want a different fate and live differently, but in fact they simply avoid growing up , not wanting to see their future).

If your vision began to deteriorate during the period of graduation (first year of college), this may mean that you are afraid of joining a new, more adult community.

During the period of graduation, young people, just like before college, have a fear of adult life, a fear of not succeeding in the professional field - “childhood’s games are over, here it is.” adult life“, in this case, fear also blocks vision.

In general terms the mechanism is clear. And it also works in adults, since we carry most of our conditions out of childhood without much revision.

Sometimes myopia is not associated with fears of the future and prospects. In this case, it is necessary to understand at what age vision began to decline, because Perhaps at this age some event happened that was difficult to look at and the person “chose”, due to his vision, “not to look” at this event.

If vision has not normalized with age, it means that the topic of the event or period is still subconsciously relevant for the person. In this case, it is necessary to deal with the event or period that was difficult for him to watch or difficult to accept or experience.

For example, if your vision decreased during puberty and never recovered, then you still do not accept yourself as an adult man/woman and do not take on the functions associated with these roles. Or if vision has dropped sharply after childbirth, this is the key to recovery in motherhood (in relation to oneself as a mother, in relation to a child, in accepting the role of a mother, etc.).

Recommendations: in order to correct your vision (myopia), you need to get rid of the fear that caused your vision deterioration. This may not be one fear, but several at once, for example, vision began to decline during puberty, worsened a little more in college, and became completely worse after childbirth. Each of these periods is accompanied by certain fears that could not be accepted.

It is necessary to open up to new ideas coming from the outside, to accept the points of view of other people (not to be rigidly fixed on your view of the world, but to allow several opinions to exist in parallel). You need to learn to solve problems as they arise and stop expecting the worst from the future.

Such fears are actually caused not by objective reality, but by the excessive activity of your imagination. Learn to look into the future with optimism. Also learn to respectfully listen to other people's opinions, even if they do not coincide with yours.

Farsightedness

With farsightedness, a person sees well in the distance and does not see close up, this means that the person is interested in what is happening in the world, in the distant environment, he is interested in his distant plans, and is not interested in looking at himself and his immediate environment (he is interested in something global, but everyday little things are so annoying that you don’t want to see them). Therefore, farsightedness is considered an age-related ailment, since in old age a person, for one reason or another, does not accept himself, age-related changes that happen to him or in his immediate environment. It’s as if your life becomes boring, but the world and your surroundings become more interesting.

According to statistics, farsightedness occurs earlier in women than in men. And this is understandable; women have a harder time accepting their age-related changes.

IN modern medicine considered normal physiological phenomenon, when accommodation deteriorates starting at about the age of 45 years. By “normality” we mean only that which, according to statistical research, people over 45 are much more likely to be farsighted than people under 45. Interestingly, the word "accommodation" means "adjustment" or "process of adaptation."

Therefore, we can assume that from age-related farsightedness those who find it difficult to adapt to what is happening suffer. It’s hard for them to look at themselves in the mirror, to see how their beloved body ages, to feel less and less attractive, they believe that aging is only a deterioration. Perhaps it is even harder for them to see the situation that is developing in their own family or at work.

People with farsightedness worry excessively about everything that happens around them and are too attached to physical dimension. Because of this they inner vision weakens, and they do not see their significance, acquired along with experience over many years.

Farsighted people go overboard with their good intentions. They want to see far, they want to get a lot at once, but they do not want to see little (everyday little things). If a person demands from others, including the state, to ensure his future, then his vision deteriorates, since he does not see that everyone must first of all arrange their own life.

Recommendations: People with farsightedness need to learn to accept themselves, look at themselves with love and live in the here and now. Don't forget that your future depends on how you feel about your life today. Learn to adapt to the people and situations that appear in your life, and this will significantly improve its quality, and at the same time your vision.

Farsighted people in life need to first learn to enjoy the little things, then life can trust them with more. In order to move forward, they should first look at their feet and only then direct their gaze into the distance (after all, they may not see the obstacle under their nose, they will stumble, and in the end they will not get anywhere).

Astigmatism

With astigmatism, a person has his own stable view of life, and it is correct for him, and all other opinions are incorrect for him (hence the split in the visual picture: one image is an objective reality, the second is subjective, and their overlap friend does not happen). People with astigmatism need to accept that other points of view are valid and begin to accept them. Astigmatism can also be a signal of fear of actually seeing yourself.

Colorblindness

When a person does not see color/colors, it means that the person subconsciously, for some reason, excludes this/these colors from his life. It is necessary to understand what certain colors symbolize for a person that he has excluded from his life (it is not their generally accepted symbolism that is important, but personal meaning for humans).

When a person confuses similar shades, it means that a person sees his life in polar colors, but does not see shades as nuances of life or does not want to see.

When a person confuses contrasting colors, it means that a person’s life does not have rainbow colors and as if everything in life is one for him.

The situation with diseases differs in children under three years of age. A child under three years of age is psychologically in a strong connection with his mother and does not yet identify himself as a separate person, therefore all diseases in a child under three years of age are maternal diseases.

Those. a child under three years of age expresses through his body (in this case, eye disorders) the problems that his mother has, and if the mother deals with these symptoms as if she were her own and deals with them, the child will no longer need to show the mother’s symptoms.

Conjunctivitis (styre or inflammation of the eyes)

From a psychosomatic point of view, the symptoms of this disease mean that something is happening in a person’s life that causes him irritation, anger, hatred and resentment, and the person does not agree with what is happening (this could be a situation, a person, etc.) and he does not wants to see this annoying factor.

The reasons are not important, the main thing is that the person experiences a feeling of irritation and anger. The stronger negative emotions, - those more inflammation. Your aggression comes back to you and hits you in the eyes. In this case, if a person identifies what factors cause him to feel irritated or angry and deals with these factors (or finally accepts the irritating factors or removes them from his field of vision), the body will not need a symptom of conjunctivitis.

Sometimes the manifestation of schadenfreude and malice can lead to inflammation. After all, what is the evil eye? This is wishing evil on another person. And it will be reflected in your eyes.

Strabismus

When a person sees normally with both eyes, both pictures are synchronously superimposed on one another. With strabismus, a person sees two different pictures, under different angles vision. And his subconscious is forced to choose one. This is how a one-sided view of things is formed.

Multiple strabismus in a child means that he sees contradictory messages from his parents. For example, when a mother wants one thing from a child, and a father wants another, and when the parents are of equal importance to the child, i.e. he cannot prioritize between mom and dad, a situation occurs when the child does not know who to listen to, and his eyes literally diverge.

Convergent strabismus. In contrast to multilateral strabismus, the cause of convergent strabismus is the child receiving contradictory messages from caregivers of the same sex (for example, mother and grandmother) and the child also cannot set priorities, and therefore physical level the above psychological “distress” can be expressed in the convergence of the eyes to one point.

Strabismus in adults means that a person looks with one eye into real reality, and with the other either into an “illusory reality” or into some “other world”. In this case, I put an esoteric meaning into the concept of “another world”. Strabismus in adults means fear of looking into the present right here and now.

Glaucoma

With glaucoma, intraocular pressure increases, and severe pain V eyeball. It literally becomes painful to see. A person is pressured by old grievances against people, against fate, some kind of heartache, he does not forgive the wounds inflicted on him in the past. By stubbornly refusing to forgive, you only hurt yourself.

Glaucoma signals to a person that he is exposing himself to severe internal pressure. Blocks out his feelings. In this case, it is very important to learn to express your emotions and give vent to your feelings. This disease is always associated with sadness. If glaucoma is accompanied by a headache, this means that the process of increasing this very sadness is underway.

Congenital glaucoma- The mother had to endure a lot of sadness during pregnancy. She was greatly offended, but she gritted her teeth and endured everything, but she cannot forgive. Sadness lived in her even before pregnancy, and during it she attracted injustice, from which she suffered and became vengeful. She attracted to her a child with an identical mindset, whose debt of karma was given the opportunity to be redeemed. Congenital glaucoma means being overwhelmed and overwhelmed by these feelings.

Cataract

Inability to look forward with joy. The future is covered in darkness. Why do cataracts usually occur in older people? Because they do not see anything joyful in their future. It is "foggy". What awaits us there, in our future? Old age, illness and death (so they think). Yes, there seems to be nothing to be happy about. This is how we program ourselves in advance for suffering at this age. But our old age and our departure from this world, like everything else, depend only on ourselves, on the thoughts and moods with which we meet them.

Dry eyes

Refusal to see, to experience the feeling of love. I would rather die than forgive. A malicious, sarcastic, unfriendly person. Loss of vision

The emergence in memory and replaying of only bad events.

Vision loss caused by aging is a reluctance to see the annoying little things in life. An old person wants to see the great things that have been done or achieved in life. If he does not understand that life begins with little things, which are just as important as the big things, since one cannot exist without the other, and he begins to hate these little things, then they will begin to annoy him more and more. Although vision deteriorates so that a person cannot see small things, as he would like, the person does not like it. He doesn’t want to see little things, but for some reason he puts on glasses so that he can see them. Anger contributes to increasingly weakening of vision. Anyone who stops wasting themselves on trifles, appreciating time in old age, can wear the same glasses for decades. optical power. And if an old person stops paying attention to the little things in life, because he feels that they have lost their meaning for him, then his vision begins to improve. What is change? Yes, everything that is of little importance to you.

Suddenly incidental blindness or even a significant decrease in vision, disrupting normal life activities, are one of the most severe mental shocks for a person. As we have already indicated, the organ of vision is one of the main, general analyzers, providing all visual information about the external world and the possibility of appropriate adaptation in environment. For a certain period of time, until compensation occurs, a suddenly blind person becomes helpless, which often leads to acute psychotic reactions, in some cases lasting for a long time.

R. Sussmann, a psychiatrist, pointed out that ophthalmology is a close “sister” discipline in relation to psychiatry. We fully share this point of view and are convinced that the structure of a large ophthalmology department should include a psychiatrist, and on the staff of the ophthalmological institute - a group of psychiatrists who would not only study the characteristics of neuropsychic disorders in various ophthalmological diseases, but also engaged in the development of treatment and preventive measures for this group of patients.

Should note that, as with one or another pathology in the ophthalmological sphere, severe neuropsychic disorders develop, and various dysfunctions of the function of this sphere such as amblyopia, amaurosis, ptosis, blepharospasm, etc. arise in many diseases of a psychogenic nature (neuroses, reactive states, decompensation, psychopathy).
Kalxthoff, having examined about 7,000 patients with psychogenic amblyopia, noted that in children under 15 years of age this pathology occurs 5 times more often than in adults.

There is no doubt that persons who suddenly became blind in adulthood, the organic symptoms caused by the underlying disease that led to blindness are complicated by functional psychogenic disorders and the very fact of decreased or loss of vision. Here, the personality structure of the patient plays a significant role in the development of pathological disorders. Thus, L. Cholden believes that the mental reaction to blindness is closely related to the characteristics of the personality structure before the onset of blindness. The more dependent a person was on others before losing his sight, the more pronounced and acute his reaction to blindness.

L. Holden, G. Adams, I. Pearlmen indicate that, in addition to neurotic reactions to vision loss, blind people often develop anxious depression, sometimes with persistent suicidal thoughts and actions. Loss of vision, according to F. Deutsch, leads to emotional conflict and the development of anxiety.

As we indicated in previous articles on our website, born blind there is a certain originality mental functions: perceptions, ideas, memory, emotional-volitional reactions. In these individuals, the development and formation of the psyche occurs under conditions of visual deprivation - turning off vision, leading to disruption of the adaptive function of the body. Adaptation in people born blind occurs slowly, gradually, as the child grows and the scope of his vital and social functions expands.

In persons blind in adulthood, the process of formation of the psyche has almost been completed, a certain personal structure has emerged; in addition, before losing their vision, they were already, to one degree or another, adapted to their environment. Therefore, loss of vision for them is not the initial condition, as is the case with those born blind or blind in early childhood, and the complete collapse of everyone life plans and hopes.

As is known, " plastic» adaptive-compensatory functions in adulthood are significantly lower than in childhood, and adaptation to a lost function occurs more slowly. Sudden onset blindness in adulthood is not very common, but still not that common rare occurrence. At the same time about clinical manifestations and the dynamics of neurotic reactions in these patients and the features of their adaptation from literary sources, quite little is known, and the available information is scattered and contradictory.

Since 1970, we (together with A.I. Semenov) have studied psychopathological disorders in individuals who suddenly became blind in adulthood (before 45 years). 133 people, mostly men (75%), were examined in an ophthalmological hospital and outpatient setting. The main research method was clinical-dynamic using experimental psychological techniques (associative verbal experiment, antonymic series, memorization of 10 words, etc.). Neurological and electroencephalographic examinations were performed simultaneously.

Excluded from those studied were faces with mental illness , organic damage brain with mental disorders, as well as with pronounced psychopathic traits.

Blindness was mainly caused by traumatic eye injury, chemical burn and detachment, the duration of blindness ranged from 2 to 5 years. More than 60% of patients lost their vision before the age of 35. Persons no older than 45 years of age were selected for the examination in order to exclude the possibility of the manifestations of cerebral atherosclerosis influencing the clinical picture.
Residual vision in the form of light perception was observed in 30% of those examined.

In professional and social terms Before vision loss, patients were distributed as follows: workers and peasants - 64%, office workers and students - 36% and 56% of those surveyed were married.
A. I. Semenov distinguishes three stages of the neurotic reaction that arose in response to blindness: the first stage is acute reactive; the second is transitional, lasting up to 3 years, during which either practical adaptation to blindness occurs, or pathocharacterological, mainly neurotic, changes in the personality structure gradually increase; the third stage is characterized by the formation of persistent pathocharacterological traits (personal psychopathization).

According to the Department of Health and social security, there are 4.3 million people in the United States who are blind or visually impaired. Many of us have such people among our acquaintances and we would like to support them, but not everyone knows how to behave and be useful. Warn the person when you enter the room, ask how you could help - this is quite simple ways show courtesy and help a blind person. First of all, your behavior should be based on respect and understanding of the fact that the person you want to help is not just blind.

Steps

Basic Standards of Courtesy

Say hello loudly. When you enter a room where a blind person is already present, a loud greeting will alert him to your presence. If you remain silent until you get close to the person, he or she may think you came out of nowhere, which can be embarrassing for anyone.

• Identify yourself so that the person understands who he is dealing with.
• If a person offers you his hand to shake, do not refuse.

1. Announce your departure from the room. It's not always intuitive, but care should say something. You should not rely on the person to hear your retreating footsteps. It is simply impolite to leave without warning, because the person may continue to contact you. Such awkward situation frustrating.

   Offer your help. If it seems to you that the person is not comfortable with your help, then instead of making assumptions, it is best to ask directly. Politely suggest, “may I help you?” If the answer is yes, then ask what you should do. But if the answer is no, then it is impolite to insist. Many blind people have learned to get along just fine without any outside help.

   • If they are ready to accept your help, then do only what is asked. Often, sighted people take on too much for good reasons, and a blind person can be offended by such behavior.
   • In some cases, you don't even need to ask. For example, when everyone sits down at the table, and blind person is already sitting, there is no need to come up and ask how you could help. Try to feel the situation rather than guess.

2. Ask questions directly. Many people have no experience communicating with blind people and do not know how to treat them. For example, in a restaurant, waiters often turn to the person sitting next to a blind person when offering the blind person more water or a menu. Blind people cannot see, but they can hear everything, so always contact them directly.

   Use the words “look” and “see.” You may be tempted to change your speech habits and try not to use words like “look” and “see.” Better use them, otherwise an awkward situation may arise. A blind person will be unpleasant not from using these words, but from the fact that you speak to him differently than to everyone else.

   • Don't be shy about saying things like "I'm very glad to see you."
   • But don't use the words "look" and "see" when describing this person's actions. For example, if a person is at risk of bumping into something, it is better to say “Stop!” rather than “Watch your step!”

3. You should not pet your guide dog. These are specially trained animals that are designed to protect the life and safety of blind people. Blind people rely on guide dogs for guidance, so you should not call or pet them. If the dog is distracted, it may occur dangerous situation. Don't distract the dog's attention. You can stroke it only if the blind person himself suggested it to you.

   Don't make assumptions about the lives of the blind. Asking too many questions or discussing the issue of blindness is unethical. They answer questions like this all the time. Every day they find themselves in places and situations in which sighted people feel more comfortable. You will do much more kindness by talking to a blind person about the most ordinary things.

   • A common myth that blind people are often asked about is their incredible sense of hearing or smell. Blind people have to rely on these senses much more than sighted people, but they don't have any super powers, and it's not nice to assume that.
   • Typically, blind people do not like to talk about the reasons for their blindness. They can start this conversation themselves. Only then can you ask a few questions.

4. Help him walk up the steps. First, indicate whether the stairs should be ascended or descended, and also describe the approximate slope and length of the stairs. Then place the blind man's hand on the railing. If you are leading a person, then take the first step and wait for the person being guided to keep up with you.

   Help pass through doorways. When approaching the door, the blind person should be on the side of the hinges and should be told which way the door opens. First, open the door and go through it yourself. Then place the blind man's hand on door handle and let him close the door behind you both.

From the perspective of an ophthalmologistpoor vision can be due to any of three reasons : this is heredity, or trauma, or habits harmful to vision (reading in semi-darkness, watching TV too close or for too long, etc.).

But from the perspective of a psychosomatic psychologist his first guess about the cause of the disease may mean the patient’s unconscious reluctance to see or notice something. At the appointment, the ophthalmologist will ask: “How much do you read, my friend, and what kind of vision do your parents have?”, and the psychologist may ask: “Think and tell me what and who you don’t want to see so much, but are forced to do it!? »

With this formulation of the question, it is not difficult to understand that all of the explanations we have listed for the causes of the disease have a right to exist, and at the same time.

And there will be poor vision - as a direct consequence of a suppressed desire not to see something and (or) someone. And poor vision will be - as a signal (metaphor, message) that the need and need not to see something or someone has become unbearable, and there is no way to satisfy it, to avoid a harmful stimulus. By losing his sight, a person receives a “secondary benefit” for this, that is, he gains the opportunity not to see closely what he does not want to see.

And he cannot manage his life in such a way that the stimulus disappears from his field of vision, so by weakening his vision he facilitates the psychological experience (compensation). And forced to see what he does not want to see, a person generates a contradiction between the parts of his experience (good vision on the one hand and “bad” psychological vision on the other) - and his good vision is equated with “bad psychological vision” (synchronization). And, finally, it is obvious that a person thereby generates in his mind rigid programs of “bad” visual experience (it manifests itself in the words: “I don’t want to see you”, “get out of my sight”, “my eyes would not see you” , “and don’t show your face to me”, “seeing you is sickening”, and so on and so forth).

Of course, reluctance to see someone is not the only reason for poor vision, and I mentioned it only as an example. With equal “success”, vision can deteriorate from the same strong desire see someone. By the way, haven’t you noticed that young people’s vision deteriorates, as a rule, with a minus sign (myopia or myopia), and in older people – with a plus sign (farsightedness)!?

Even on this occasion, one interesting theory has emerged: the fact is that our past and future are independent of our vision. We do not need vision, as such, to see the desired future, and we do not need vision to replay the “film of the past” in our heads. We use, so to speak, “inner vision”; we are able to either visually remember the pictures we saw, or construct new pictures from elements of previously seen ones. Our eyes may be closed.

Older people have a lot of past, all their past experiences dominate their present and future. And for young people these are “prospects”, this is “still ahead”, this is the “future”.

In this case, we can assume that frequent reference to images of the future leads us to myopia, and frequent reference to the past leads us to farsightedness. I’m not going to convince you that this is exactly the case, it’s just a theory.

But, at least, this gives me an answer to how in such an amazing way people’s vision changes with age from minus to plus, from myopia to farsightedness. It can also be noted that people in the present tense, all the time “here and now,” have very little chance of spoiling their eyesight, because all the time they use only physiological vision, and very little - psychological vision, so to speak.

Let us remember another theory of deteriorating vision: this is associated with the establishment of a forced physical limit on the viewing distance. Such boundaries are the walls of houses, fences, books, monitor and TV screens, etc.

An obstacle constantly appears before your eyes, on which you focus your gaze, and this distance is set forcibly, it does not depend on you that there are more and more houses, that the streets are increasingly crowded, that you need to read more and more, that your gaze is always as if in a cage , limited by physically impenetrable barriers. This problem primarily relates to major cities, megacities such as New York or Moscow, and the higher their density, the more tightly compressed life is, the more more people's eyesight is deteriorating.

And indirectly this can confirm the fact that at the opening large spaces without any obstacle (a ferris wheel, the top floor of a multi-story building), some strange “visual euphoria” appears. Probably, our eyes at this moment feel like a prisoner escaped from prison who is enjoying freedom.

Finally, another theory is that visual impairment may be related to the type and style of thinking. The fact is that in addition to our eyes, we have another type of “eye” that is capable of seeing at any distance, that is capable of overcoming any obstacles, that can see equally well both at night and during the day. These “eyes” are our mind. The mind is able to simulate visual sensations without any connection to what our own eyes see at a given moment in time. And it is interesting to note that there are a lot of idiomatic expressions that clearly indicate this type of “vision”: “how far-sighted you are,” “look to the root,” “can’t see beyond your nose,” and so on.

True, we have not yet found a clear answer to the question of how one relates to the other. For example, we can say that a person who reads a lot has a high chance of weakening his eyesight. But something completely different can be said: a person who reads a lot constantly creates visual pictures in his head that do not exist in reality. Or, to put it another way, he uses physical vision in order to see with a psychological “look”; his eyes, in fact, become the sensory vestige of psychological vision.

True visual function is suppressed all the time, and we are already forced to do something (for example, watch a movie) to restore it (for example, we go to the gym, run on a machine and pedal in order to somehow preserve the resource of muscle activity ).

But this is all the above, as Comrade Hamlet said, “words, words, words.” As you can see, possible reasons and there are a lot of consequences - and each of them probably has its own “hint”, its own zest.