I still remember the first time I walked into my therapist’s office, completely unsure what to expect. I had spent months bouncing between emotions I couldn’t quite explain, and all I knew was that something felt off. My anxiety wasn’t just lingering in the background—it was loud, disruptive, and exhausting. That’s when I was introduced…
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) didn’t just help me manage my anxiety—it completely reshaped the way I understand it. I remember sitting in a therapist’s office, shoulders tight, constantly bracing for a “what if” scenario that rarely came true. It felt like my brain was wired to worry. What changed? I discovered that managing anxiety wasn’t…
“You might just have floaters,” the optometrist said, glancing into my eyes through that blinding light. I remember thinking, “Sure, but why does it feel like there’s a spider web crawling across my vision?” That was my first real brush with something I later learned could be tied to a lesser-known condition—familial macular dystrophy floaters….
When I was in my early twenties, I started noticing these faint, thread-like wisps floating in my vision, especially when looking at a bright sky or a white screen. Back then, I chalked it up to fatigue or too much screen time. Years later, I learned they weren’t just any floaters—they were linked to a…
“What the heck is that shadow dancing across my vision?” I muttered one morning, waving my hand in front of my face like an idiot—as if I could brush it away. I had been ignoring it for weeks, chalking it up to too much screen time or not enough sleep. But this one was different….
If someone had told me a few years ago that sitting on a couch talking about my past could help calm the chaos in my mind, I would’ve laughed. But that was before I gave psychodynamic therapy a real shot for anxiety. I’m not talking about quick fixes or shallow breathing techniques—I mean the deep,…
When I first noticed those faint, squiggly shapes drifting across my vision, I chalked it up to stress or screen time. But as they persisted—especially during bright days or while staring at a blank wall—I started wondering: is this just a normal aging thing, or something deeper? Turns out, what I was experiencing could be…
If you’ve ever stared at the sky or a blank wall and caught a glimpse of drifting squiggles or transparent threads, you know how oddly distracting eye floaters can be. Mine started after a long editing session one night—tiny specs that darted away whenever I tried to focus on them. At first, I brushed it…
So there I was, sitting at my kitchen table with my coffee, trying to read the label on my glaucoma meds when I noticed something strange—little translucent squiggles drifting across my vision. At first, I thought it was just a smudge on my glasses. Turns out, it wasn’t my glasses. It was floaters. And if…