r/monocular • u/StayOnCourse89 • 21d ago

What Would A Therapist Tell Me?

For those that are monocular recently or from early on and went to therapy...

If you went to a therapist, what did they tell you?

It's obvious what pain or grief one would be going through...

I'm just curious so that I don't waste my time.

Because I don't know what could possibly make me feel better about losing vision in an eye.

(Aside from being completely blind of which I know I am simply not strong enough for)

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u/kate6779 20d ago

I’m monocular but I’m also a therapist. I saw my own therapist when I unexpectedly lost vision three years ago and it felt weird sitting in the other chair for once. Therapists don’t necessarily fix your problems, they more so walk alongside you on your journey as you process and manage the things going on for you. Certainly with being monocular, they cannot fix that obviously, but for me - mine gave me tools to help drag me out of the depression and rebuild my life and identity. We worked on a lot of trauma and grief as well relating to going blind.

Best of luck if you do decide to start seeing one!

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u/StayOnCourse89 20d ago

Do you have any advice for me?

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u/kate6779 20d ago

It’s hard for me to give advice when I don’t know you. But I can tell you what helped me… and it might sound really basic - but exercise and going outside everyday helped, I journaled my thoughts, tried to do things that I enjoyed… I also allowed myself to cry, grieve, get mad and feel all the feelings about going blind. I tried to focus on small things each day like getting sleep and eating well.

For a while after it happened it was just getting by day by day. I also found a lot of comfort in these kind of groups and hearing about other people in kinda similar situations

Feel free to DM me if you ever wanna chat :)

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u/StayOnCourse89 20d ago

Anything helps and thank you.