{"id":1204,"date":"2025-10-03T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/an-optometrist-explains-how-does-stress-affect-your-vision\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:51:15","slug":"an-optometrist-explains-how-does-stress-affect-your-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/an-optometrist-explains-how-does-stress-affect-your-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"An optometrist explains: how does stress affect your vision?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is well known that stress has a huge impact on our bodies, but we often forget that stress also affects our eyes. Although stress and anxiety don&#8217;t cause permanent damage to your eyes, they can trigger and exacerbate eye-related problems. Both stress and anxiety increase the levels of adrenaline and cortisol in your body, which in turn affects muscle tension and blood flow in and around the eyes.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1772793659371_67\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6502c9e4a6fdcc54f09974bb\/6c368e59-0561-4274-875b-e9660738b8c3\/pexels-arina-krasnikova-5712080.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>The most common eye-related problems when you experience stress, anxiety and fatigue:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eye tension<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blurred vision<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Difficulty focusing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eyelid twitching<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dryness of the eyes, which may also manifest as watery eyes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Photosensitivity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Headaches<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dizziness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silmalaser.ee\/booking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Optometrist appointment times at Silmalaser<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Eye problems caused by stress, strain and fatigue are usually temporary. They will disappear on their own if you let your eyes get enough rest, sleep well, keep yourself <strong>moving<\/strong>, eat a varied <strong>diet<\/strong> and <strong>reduce<\/strong> or remove <strong>sources of stress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that stress has a huge impact on our bodies, but we often forget that stress also affects our eyes. Although stress and anxiety don&#8217;t cause permanent damage to your eyes, they can trigger and exacerbate eye-related problems. Both stress and anxiety increase the levels of adrenaline and cortisol in your body, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/an-optometrist-explains-how-does-stress-affect-your-vision\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-an-optometrist-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silm.orgo.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}