Weird vision with anxiety

[LHall123]

I've had really extreme anxiety over the last two mouths it's all eased up now which is good however my vision is so strange like all the time as if everything around me has changed and is flat kind of, it really freaks me out! Anyone have any idea what's happening or how too stop it?

[Aazz]

It sounds like depersonalization/derealization this is common with anxiety and I found when my initially extreme anxiety eased up then I got this. DP/DR is your brains way of protecting itself from stress. The best way to overcome this is to let it be, don't be afraid of it and don't focus on it, let it be continue working on your anxiety and it will pass.

[LHall123 in reply to Aazz]

That's a big relief for me! Felt like I was going crazy thank you!

[Shandapanda]

Have you seen an eye doctor?

[LHall123 in reply to Shandapanda]

Yeah perfect vision went a few weeks back

[wecandoit]

Hi I'm new to this community and I feel the same! Do you mind sharing more about how your vision feels?

[Njteal]

Does it feel like it's hard to focus your eyes and sometimes hard to distinguish between far away things and near things?

[Helena877]

I had similar on the morning before a panic attack. My experience was this...

I was stood in a tube station and it was as though the lighting had changed. I looked at people and they looked sort of distorted. But I knew they weren't - it was just how I was seeing them.

For the remainder of the day I felt like I was in a bit of a bubble world. Interacting, but not wholly present. @Aazz mentions depersonalisation and that is spot on for me - thank you poster!! You have given me a missing piece of my anxiety jigsaw puzzle

Another time I was driving on the motorway dark skies above. I went over the brow of a hill and suddenly I came into bright sunshine. This change in lighting set me off onto the onset of a panic attack but fortunately I managed to bring myself out of it.

[Agora1]

Helena877, you are not alone in sensing a change in vision or being brought close to the brink of a panic attack due to a sudden change in lighting and even sound. Our brain is so over stimulated that it can't handle changes and becomes distorted with our vision as well as our thinking rationally. Glad to hear you brought yourself out of a panic.