With practice, we can train ourselves to be able to redirect our attention away from our visual disturbances (that we experience as a result of anxiety), & back outwards onto the world whilst doing the things we love. When we practice this consistently over time, our brain starts to learn that whilst visual disturbances are uncomfortable- they're not dangerous, and actually rather unimportant. As a lovely side-effect, we start to experience and notice VS less and less. This is a process called habituation, & this is recovery.
I no longer obsess about my visual disturbances, and my VS is only there if I remember it and find myself looking for it. I'm sure I still also get eye floaters, trailing images, and all the rest of it- but again, I only notice it if I ever look for it and this feels like freedom.
𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨, 𝘿𝙈 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣.
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15 окт 2024
