Are depression and vision problems related?

Question

I have vision problems: floaters in my right eye that move across the vision field, halos around lights, difficulty distinguishing color shades especially at night , burning eyes, dizziness when i look at moving images. Basically my vision is always like someone just tried to blind me with a light minutes ago. I also have balance problems, left nipple discharge, candida yeast infection, pressure in my nose, tight neck, upper back pain that shoots into my right arm when I try to move my head to the right, horrible headaches, always bloated, nausea, inability to concentrate AT ALL, hot flashes and twitches accross my body. I am always incredibly tirred and without breath after climbing a couple of stairs. This has been going on for the last 4 months. It all started suddenly with a bout of double vision that lasted for about an hour - vision not corrected 100% after that and incredible fatigue. I am 23, female and this is killing my life plans - supposed to go for masters. HELP ME PLEASE.

Answer 1

You should brief your doctor exactly as you have stated your problems on the net. I am sure he can help you. You are depressed because of the vision problem. Depression has no connection with vision problems.

Answer 2

Wow, that's a lot of symptoms.

The most important thing you should do is seeing an ophthalmologist. You didn't mention in your post wether you did that or not, but you proably have an issue (won't get into medical terms) with a part that lies inside the body of your eye(s). If you don't consult a doctor about this now, your sight problem will get worse.

Sight problems and depression are not related, as of such. All the physical and physiological symptoms you've described, are abnormal for a person your age, and unless you've been under heavy medication or have had the experience a severe health problem recently (other than the present one), then everything you're experiencing is related to a serious psychological problem which you are ignoring.

What you forgot to mention, is what's hapenning to you, mentally and psychologically speaking. Either a trauma, a very very stressful period in your life, something going terribly wrong with your functioning has serious repercussions over your body. Your mental insatisfaction, pain, or unhappiness, triggers physical problems.

Not trying to be Melvin the mind reader, but if you try to solve these problems with just medication, and just fill yourself with pills, even if your condition will get better, your mind will only get worse, and will eventually affect your body again.

There are a lot of people in your situation, that respond in a very intense manner to psychological stimuli, through physical symptoms. See a therapist, a councilor. If you can't afford it, ask your generalist to give his best advice.