I still remember the uneasy feeling after my eye surgery—the strange specks drifting across my vision like dust in a sunbeam. I blinked. Rubbed my eyes. Blinked again. Still there. Those annoying shadows were my first experience with floaters after corneal surgery. At the time, no one had warned me this could happen. And yet,…
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…